I can`t more agree with you Jorge. But, if it is true that the creation of New gTLDs is not enough to fulfill the goal to increase the namespace competition, at least give us (consumers and applicants candidates) in the posibility to participate in an almost monopoly market managed by the Big company and their " associated ", and also give us the posibility to change the situation. One of the liminar principles of ICANN is the competition & the consumer choice, in this order I consider the structure of ICANN need some improvements to guarantee that.
One of the problems with the new gTLD program, if you don't look at the retail side of the biz, is that you will be creating additional small monopolies under control of a single entity each, which to be frank as far as we know from some of the players, they will be the same companies that currently run a TLD or are aspiring to run a collection of them, directly or indirectly. Real competition has to start at the top level, splitting for example the most dominant names, which as we know is a no deal thanks to previous negotiations that granted a single company the rights to do so to perpetually, then what we intent to do is to artificially expand the name space but by doing so you are not increasing competition, you are just increasing user's choice, which again was not one of the original goals even at the creation of ICANN. Unfortunately ICANN became the OPEC of the Internet name space (we'll leave the numbers out by now). Another .02 Jorge