3 MAR, 2004 - 1640 CST Jim, I agree with your general statement and reasoning for having progress reports on staff projects. I would also add board committee projects, where the nature of the task permits this to be done. However, truth be known about the FCC's haste to get BPL rolling, I suspect we all expected the FCC to hold off at least until the NTIA technical studies are completed and posted. Reading between the lines, there might be enough "leakage" of the NTIA's data to have triggered the FCC's hasty? NPRM. And if this is the case, I would like to know why the FCC is so hell-bent to get BPL going. Who is getting paid off now... or in the future? But you are right in saying we should have had the independent "professional" verification of our BPL interference findings completed by the end of 2003. However, I doubt if our "verified" findings would have delayed the posting of the FCC's BPL NPRM, but they would certainly put the FCC in a more embarrassing position... if the current Commissioners can indeed be embarrassed. 73 - Dick, W9GIG