China says that the American Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers (IEEE), broke ISO rules when its national bodies voted on newtechnology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard.It claims that the IEEE didn't follow ethical and procedural rules andprinciples.

China had been trying to force every man plus dog to adopt itsproprietary and secret encryption standard called WAPI. However it wasforced to abandon the plan when Intel refused to sell its productsbehind the bamboo curtain. Intel said that if it adopted the standardit would have to hand over IP rights to Chinese companies. In March both the IEEE and China asked the ISO to approve a standardfor Wireless. The ISO rejected China's WAPI standard, but Beijingclaims that was only because the IEEE misled many national bodies thatvoted on the plan.