China wants the International Standards Organization (ISO) to take a hard look at Intel, accusing it of unethical behaviour.

"China has launched a case against American chipmaker Intel's near-monopoly on encryption standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment," says Agency France-Presse, quoting the country's "state press".

It says the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "actual makers of the technology," violated ISO rules, "when its national bodies voted on new technology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard," says AFP.

"China now wants the ISO to investigate the fast-track process to determine 'whether the ethical and procedural rules and principles have indeed been violated and whether the ballots have been unfairly influenced by those ethical and procedural violations'."

ISO overwhelmingly turned down China’s domestic wireless LAN technology as an international standard, instead going for IEEE 802.11I, "as the basis for a more secure wireless protocol," said the EE Times.

But China says it's going ahead anyway, the China state news agency, Xinhua, had an official with the Standard Administration of China (SAC) saying.

Also See:
Agency France-Presse - China Files Case Against Intel's Wireless Network, May 30, 2006
turned down - China WAPI standard rejected, March 13, 2006

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