WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure: Difference between revisions

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The result was subject to two appeals by SAC to the ISO/IEC Secretaries General that alleged "unethical" and "amoral" behavior during the balloting process and irregularities during the ballot resolution process. The official Chinese news agency [[Xinhua]] said on May 29, 2006, that appeals were filed in April and May 2006 and, the agency said, alleged that the IEEE was involved in "organizing a conspiracy against the China-developed WAPI, insulting China and other national bodies, and intimidation and threats."{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} Xinhua did not make these allegations specific. In July 2006, 802.11i was published as an ISO/IEC standard. WAPI is no longer being considered by ISO/IEC and all appeals have been dismissed.

After the preliminary results were announced in March 2006, various press reports from China suggested that WAPI may still be mandated in China. TBT (Technical Barrier to Trade) declarations to the WTO in January 2006 and a statement in June 2006 to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6, in which SAC said they would not respect the status of 802.11i as an international standard, seemed to support this possibility. However, as of early 2007, the only official Chinese policy related to WAPI is a "government preference" for WAPI in government and government-funded systems. It is unclear how strongly this preference has been enforced, and it seems to have had little effect on the non-government market, which is overwhelmingly based on WiFi-certified equipment using [[Wi-Fi Protected Access|WPA2]], a subset of 802.11i.<ref name="Fletcher">{{cite paper |title=Years on, China Pushes WAPI in Mobile Phones |url=http://www.cio.com/article/492084/Years_on_China_Pushes_WAPI_in_Mobile_Phones |accessdate=2009-07-14 |first=Owen |last=Fletcher}}</ref>

===ISO resubmission===