Coal in my stocking

I happened upon a Christmas wish list I made at the end of 2006, and thought it would be fun to see how many of my wishes came true during 2007.

Came true:

1. New online Form 486
2. "Two-signature/two date" finally put to rest
3. The same PIA reviewer 2 years in a row [some of them, anyway]

Didn't come true:

1. COMADs only for Waste, Fraud, Abuse, not errors
2. No Form 486
3. All FCC appeals decided within 90 days
4. Publish the secret 700-page PIA manual
5. How about publishing 200 pages of it?
6. How about just telling us what triggers a Cost Effectiveness Review?
7. Don't take the Data Request Tool offline at night
8. At least let us know when the DRT will be offline
9. At the very least, let us know that the DRT is offline. As it stands now, you just get a message that no records were found.
10. A "copy" button on the 470 and 471 which lets you import all the info from last year's forms [For most small, low-discount applicants, those forms are identical year in and year out, and for all applicants, many elements are identical.]
11. Let applicants edit BEARs after they've been sent to service providers, so we can correct errors the service providers find
12. An online tech plan tool that applicants can use, set up so that it will generate plans that the SLD won't later decide are inadequate
13. A list describing the most outrageous requests. You know that PIA reviewers must pass around really hilarious requests. Let us all in on the joke.
14. Block 4 information in the Data Request Tool
15. Registration of consultants
16. The discount matrix topping out at 80% for equipment
17. Dark fiber eligible
18. An "about us" page for the SLD. There aren't that many people there, and I'd just love to see a brief resume for each of them.
19. Mel Blackwell in a red suit and beard, flying all over the country, handing out Priority Two funding to applicants with a 40% discount. Ho ho ho.

Oh, well.