My Christmas list

I'd like to invite everyone to post their E-Rate Christmas lists. [Blogmaster's note: an anonymous note here is really anonymous. Unlike the SLD, I can't collect your IP address and trace it back to you.]

Let's see, what would be on mine?

• COMADs only for Waste, Fraud, Abuse, not errors
• New online Form 486
• Even better, no Form 486
• All FCC appeals decided within 90 days
• Publish the secret 700-page PIA manual
• How about publishing 200 pages of it?
• How about just telling us what triggers a Cost Effectiveness Review?
• Don't take the Data Request Tool offline at night
• At least let us know when the DRT will be offline
• 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.
• 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.]
• "Two-signature/two date" finally put to rest
• Let applicants edit BEARs after they've been sent to service providers, so we can correct errors the service providers find
• 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
• 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.
• Block 4 information in the Data Request Tool
• Registration of consultants
• The discount matrix topping out at 80% for equipment
• Dark fiber eligible
• 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.
• The same PIA reviewer 2 years in a row
• 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.