Bush Administration Challenges China’s WiFi

The Bush administration has officially challenged China’s homegrown Wi-Fi security standard that is planned to be in effect on June 1.

A letter to Beijing officials raising concerns about China’s Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure, or WAPI, standard and the need to resolve the dispute before the June 1 implementation of the standard was signed by Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Trade Representative, according to industry lobbyists who were briefed on the letter’s contents.

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