[Alan Anderson]

"GP" is Gracious Professionalism. It's an important concept in the FIRST culture. Consider it a combination of Google's "Don't be evil", Scouting's "Do a good turn daily", and the old Army "Be all you can be" slogan.

The reason it applies here is that IFI has asked that the radio modem control protocol remain a secret. Someone with sufficient skill can figure it out (and some have done so), but having those skills often implies a level of maturity and wisdom that keeps one from using the knowledge for ill purposes. If the protocol were published openly, however, any random script kiddie would be able to hack together something to disrupt a FRC competition.