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Benefits of The FLAG Protocol

• Popular in large volume electronics industry (particularly metering)

• Well established, installed in literally millions of premises worldwide

• Doesn't define data, only data packaging

• Well scoped to include essentials, but unrestrictive to independent development

• Compliant products may be designed with little or no knowledge of the network

• Small size (13 page document, has been implemented in 500 bytes of 4-bit assembler code)

• Used extensively by the major players (Honeywell, Landis+Gyr, Itron, Secure, Siemens)

• Impartial, because of influence from a large group, with a wide variety of interests

• Stable – has not changed in principal since 1985

• Secure – idependent vendor-defined algorithms

• Current - continually refreshed to meet available communications technology