Re: Seeking advice on wireless cards

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Colin Zhu wrote:

> Yep, and that means Centrino will not be permitted to sell in China....
> I think those people must be mad...

I think I am lost. I was under impression that WAPI is a standard along
with a backing law, that prohibits import, manufacturing and sales
of devices that do not comply with the standard.

Personally I doubt that this standard+law will come into force (I am under
impression that it originally was supposed to in Dec) and even if it does
there will be much fuss about it, WTO dispute (given the fact that the
tech specs are disclosed only to several Chinese companies) etc. and it
hardly will be enforced in practice. So this is what I meant writting

> > Personally I don't believe WAPI will survive.

>From your reply it looks like you read just the opposite. That makes me
think that my understanding of WAPI is erroneous. So what is WAPI
afterall?

Best regards
Grzegorz

>
> dzhakakis-/[email protected] wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Colin.
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Colin Zhu wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > And maybe you should pay some attention to WAPI standards addressed by China
> > > Government. We still don't know what will happen after June 1, 2004.
> > > So.....check that.
> >
> > Personally I don't believe WAPI will survive.
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Grzegorz
> >
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