China’s new WAPI union
p2p news / p2pnet: China says it doesn’t know if its Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) Industrial Union, set up today with 22 enterprises as the first members, will be adopted as an international standard.
But, "The union should serve as a communication bridge between telecommunications operators and enterprises and play a better role in the further research, development and industrialization ofWAPI," state news agency Xinhua has Zhang Xinsheng, deputy director of the Technological Department of the Ministry of Information Industry, saying.
The union includes China’s four biggest telecommunications operators, as well as such key enterprises as Lenovo, Huawei and Beijing Founder Electronics Co and aims at promoting China’s own technological standard for wireless local area networks (WLAN), says Xinhua, adding:
"WAPI, which was developed by China, was listed as a state standard in 2003. The technology, in direct competition against 802.11i dominated by Intel, is waiting for a vote due by March 7 to determine whether it will be adopted as an international standard.
"WAPI is believed a solution to the security loophole of the existing 802.11 WLAN standard."
Also See:
Xinhua – China sets up WAPI union, March 8, 2006
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