China continues to be offended: The ISO scheduled a two-day meeting in The Czech Republic to have the Chinese delegation talk about their concerns with their proprietary WAPI security and authentication system not being adopted by ISO. The AP reports that the Chinese representatives walked out early on. They wouldn't provide a comment to the reporter, nor would the ISO. The IEEE, whose 802.11i protocol is moving forward to become an ISO standard, did talk:
"Steve Mills, the chairman of the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board, said in a statement, China 'has lost another valuable opportunity to constructively discuss the technical merits of the two security amendments.' Instead, Mills said, China continued 'to focus its attention on complaints about the balloting process.' "
One of the problems with China's attempt to get WAPI wider acceptance is that they refuse to provide the full specification or its encryption algorithm. I can't think of a standards body willing to adopt a standard they can't see.
Here's a link to previous coverage at Wi-Fi Networking News.