China Wireless Encryption System Rejected
An AP newswire article by Joe McDonald, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The world industrial-standards association has rejected China's controversial wireless encryption standard for global use, news reports said Monday, dealing a blow to Beijing's effort to promote its own standards for computers and telecoms.More here.
China is promoting its WAPI system in a campaign to reduce reliance on foreign technology and give its companies a competitive edge.
Members of the International Organization for Standardization rejected WAPI in favor of an American standard known as 802.11i in balloting that ended March 8, the U.S.-based electronics industry newspaper EE Times and the Chinese government's Xinhua News Agency said.
posted by Fergie @ 3/13/2006 07:47:00 AM
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