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China Walks Out of Wireless LAN Security Talks
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The gambit came after China's Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) security scheme was withdrawn and placed on a slower track by the ISO."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."
There is a difference between throwing a tantrum and using simple common sense: Kyoto treaty is nothing but a plan to give a financial advantage to the developing world.
Yes, China is incredibly ethnocentric, but then so is Korea and Japan. Its a common trait stemming from such a long history of ethnic homogenity and isolation. I read that it is still very common for blacks to be called "black devils".
Smoking is an expensive, slow, and unreliable method of suicide.
Example,
The US was the only major nation in the world to not support the international court. Why you ask? Because they wanted to exempt American citizens from being held to the same standards as the rest of the world. *gasp* you say.
Bye!
thank you i was about to say the same thing...you guys are talking apples and oranges. The Kyoto Accords go a lot deeper than a ISO standerds meeting...much much deeper
Good Karma, Bad Karma, doesnt matter to me... I'm still going to say whats on my mind!
ok let's off topic again. Kyoto is not the final solution to climate change. But at the moment it is the only international thing going on to try and reduce the effects of CO2 reduction. The fact that the US is using what was it, something like 80% of the worlds resources, should make it be one of the first to act here. Even if they think Kyoto is a communist or islamic complot (or whatever Orwellian enemy will be invented next), they should at least show commitment to the future and take action to reduce energy use. However it chooses to again play the card of refuting what's obvious. Anyway one day soon the whole economy will collapse with the current tax policy and expected oil price increase. Oh boy, we the rest of the world will have to brew our own cola, how will we miss the US. By the way, the USA did not only not sign Kyoto, but also played mean politics to block the Carthagena Biosafety Protocol, tries to impose GMO's on countries that do not want them, is actively blocking the international court of justice by even threatening to bloody invade The Hague when a US citizen is held there.
And now the Chinese! C'mon all you Chinese. "Yo eee ya goshee-ee eee ha ya eehee...