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China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks

Posted by Zonk on 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 The gambit came after China's Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a slower track by the ISO."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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  1. Can't fault China... by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This really isn't China's fault. I used to do this kind of thing too when I was playing marbles around the age of 4. If things didn't go my way, I'd round up all my marbles and stomp off on my way home.

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
    1. Re:Can't fault China... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to do this kind of thing too when I was playing marbles around the age of 4. If things didn't go my way, I'd round up all my marbles and stomp off on my way home.

      Wow. How did you engineer a secret backdoor into your marble game?

  2. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by selfabuse · · Score: 5, Funny

    the Chinese?

  3. China may have walked out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but an hour later, they were hungry for meeting again.

  4. Re:Not news until we find out why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They stormed out at the point that it was decided that all WAPs should be configured with a SSID of "default." China wanted it to be "linksys."

  5. Who is China, anyway? by kwerle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is China some communications company I've never heard of? Or is the government in talks with the ISO board?