China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 25, 2005 @10:47AM from the that's-one-way-to-get-what-you-want dept.

Ant writes "A CommsDesign article reports that China walked out of a wireless standards meeting this week, accusing the International Organization for Standardization of favoring the IEEE's 802.11i ANSI-certified wireless LAN security scheme over its own controverisal proposal, EE Times has learned. The gambit came after China's Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a slower track by the ISO." From the article: "China initially agreed last year to refrain from making its WAPI security scheme mandatory for wireless LAN equipment in China. It then approached ISO with a fast-track submission in an effort to make WAPI an international security standard."

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Re:Can't fault China... by rokzy · 2005-02-25 10:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

yes, and the US has been doing it since, well, forever.

some treaty or law in your way? just take unilateral action!
Re:Can't fault China... by ADRA · 2005-02-25 11:33 · Score: 1, Flamebait

So what you're saying is that Americans can commit genocide, invade anyone without cause, kill innocent children and somehow it isn't an international problem?

Please do me a favor and read the charter before you spout off about how its eroding your rights.

http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/about/officialjou rn al/Rome_Statute_120704-EN.pdf

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