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Username: Kirk Knight
Date/Time: Fri, November 10, 2000 at 9:01 PM GMT
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Subject: ICANN is a guanxi vendor

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I'm sitting in Shanghai at 4:50 am reading this forum and am
stunned at ICANN's narrow minds.  I can't believe how similar it
is to reading a report from the Chinese Government that grants
valuable rights to a friend of the Minister and ignores everyone
else.

The relationship between Afilias and ICANN is what we call
"guanxi" -gwan she - in China. You always want to do business
with someone with good guanxi, because it means 'the fix is in'. 
Sometimes it's just a trusted party, like fraternity. Other times
there's hidden value moving under the table.

ICANN seems to invite the comparison to Chinese government.
 


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