The different vendors will offer an API for their equipment. It is recommended that all critical transmissions will be logged for the possibility to recreate the information in case of failure. It should be possible to use a text editor for reading and writing messages. All attributes will be identified with a unique tag. The tag will explain what is in the attribute.
Exception is when same message type is repeated.
Then it is possible to omit tags. A tag should never contain coded information. The message syntax will, if it is possible, be based on SGML-standard. Miscellaneous Character set and encoding will follow the same standard as Internet. 7th July 1999.