[O]n 15 February 2005 the Mozilla Foundation announced it had a plan to disable IDNs by default in future versions of its web browsers. CENTR, a group of many of the world's domain registries - representing over 98% of domain registrations worldwide - believes such strong reactions are heavily detrimental to the effort to introduce non-English languages and scripts to the Internet, and could have lasting repercussions on the ongoing effort to internationalise the DNS. With this in mind, CENTR would like to make the following points....

"The Supporting Organizations and Constituency Groups of ICANN that engaged in the restraints of trade alleged in the FAC [First Amended Complaint] were substantially controlled by existing and potential competitors of Verisign and others sharing similar economic interests with Verisign's competitors. ICANN has expressly admitted (as quoted in the FAC) in other proceedings that this bottom-up policy making process is subject to control or 'capture' by small groups of competitive interests. According to ICANN, an important reason that its processes are subject to capture is that competitors may have strong interests directly affected by particular actions of ICANN, while other members of ICANN's Constituency Groups generally are part time volunteers, are not directly affected by such actions, and/or lack the time or resources fully to participate in ICANN's processes, therefore not attending meetings or voting on issues presented to Constituency Groups. The result, according to ICANN, is that a small number of highly motivated competitors may control the actions and decisions of ICANN's Supporting Organizations and this its Board."