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Source: ComputerWorld - Posted by Eric Lubow
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The International Standards Organization (ISO) last week rejected a security protocol that was backed by some Chinese representatives as an amendment to the group's wireless LAN standard. The ISO turned down the Chinese technology, called the WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI), in voting to adopt the IEEE 802.11i security specification that was developed by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., according to a member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group who asked not to be named because of working group rules.
The ISO, a network of standards institutes that overlooks specifications in a wide variety of fields, routinely adopts IEEE 802.11 standards and incorporates them into its body of specifications, the IEEE working group member said. The Chinese government said that it would continue to support WAPI and that the rejection by the ISO would not affect use of WAPI in China,
according to an online article by China's official Xinhua news service.
Read this full article at ComputerWorld
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