Is your problem that it takes X months/years to get a new TLD put into the normal ICANN Root system? Or is it that you don't like their choice of .com and want .common (or some other .com replacement?). There is a process defined to handle adding new TLD's, I think it's even documented in an RFC? (I'm a little behind in my NRIC reading about this actually, sorry) Circumventing a process simply because it's not 'fast enough' isn't really an answer (in my opinion atleast) especially when it effectivly breaks the complete system.
No, the process is locked up by monopolistic ICANN. There is one issue no one has mentioned lately. There are people who have spend hundreds of thousands of dollars developing their TLD properties and they are effectivly being shut out of the market by ICANN. We shouldn't need ICANN's permission to operate our TLDs and if ICANN wont support our TLDs, then we need an alternative way to operate our businesses. We have a right to operate our TLDs and the Inclusive Namespace is the way, since it does not force us to pay "protection money" or force us to impose the horrid UDRP on our customers. A free market system would allow all business models to exist. ICANN and its bureaucracy is not needed, just a contractor to maintain the root zone file. ICANN was supposed to be a bottom-up, democratic, consensus driven organization and board members (a significant portion of them) elected by the internet citizens of the world. Almost before the ink was dry on the MOU, ICANN, under Mr. Roberts began backing down on their responsibility to operate the organization in a democratic way. Now very few (if any) of the board members are directly elected by internet citizens. The result: ICANN is a corrupt monopoly that attempts to shut out competitors. If they want something, the steal it, just like they stole .BIZ from Leah Gallegos. THAT is the problem with ICANN, and you know damn well it is.