A colleague writes that several attempts were made in this week's IEEE meeting to insert a proprietary Chinese security specification into 802.11: They all failed, and quite handily. But interesting that the WLAN Authentication and Privacy (WAPI) protocol, which has been fought by most non-Chinese firms, is rearing its head there. As linked to earlier in the week, the international ISO standards group is unlikely to incorporate WAPI, either. WAPI is not fully published and contains proprietary, undisclosed encryption algorithms.