China asking IEEE appoligize for WAPI

China asking IEEE appoligize for WAPI
5/28/2006,China Broadband wireless IP standard workgroup told media that they have appealed to ISO about the WAPI voting result. According to an anouncement to Xinhua News agency from this workgroup:" there are more than 49 items that IEEE violates basic rule of ISO, they have clear evidence on this, and this is rarely seen during the history of ISO. "
WAPI and IEEE 802.11i， complementary to the de facto standard on safe problem, 30 country members of ISO made a vote on March 7. WAPI won 8 supporting votes, and IEEE 802.11i won 24 votes.
In the announcement by China broadband wireless IP standard workgroup, they said:" IEEE continuously violateed basic rule of ISO, misleading many members make opponent vote. The voting is unfair, China cannot accept it."

See report on the same thing from US media

China has launched a case against American chipmaker Intel's near-monopoly on encryption standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment, state press reported Monday. China has accused the makers of the technology developed by the chipmaking giant Intel of unethical behaviour and has asked the International Standards Organization (ISO) to review the case, Xinhua news reported. It says that the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), actual makers of the technology, broke ISO rules when its national bodies voted on new technology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard. China now wants the ISO to investigate the fast-track process to determine "whether the ethical and procedural rules and principles have indeed been violated and whether the ballots have been unfairly influenced by those ethical and procedural violations". China's WAPI and American IEEE applied to the ISO for a new international standard last October, but the Chinese technology's bid for approval was rejected in a ballot in March this year. "The serious violations are rare in ISO's standardization history," said the statement, adding that IEEE "unjustly" and "unfairly" violated ISO rules which misled many national bodies that voted on the new international standard. ISO will investigate the case, the report said. China has bristled at depending on proprietary foreign high technology and in 2003 tried to force multinationals wanting to sell wireless computer equipment to support its proprietary and secret encryption standard called WAPI. Beijing was forced to scrap its plans for the system when companies such as Intel threatened to stop selling their products in China, claiming they would have to give up intellectual property rights to Chinese companies.

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