Frank Dresser wrote:

The only politically safe way to show BPL is a failure is to let it fail.

Well, -theoretically-, that's true. However, many of the trials so far
*have* already been failures (from an interference standpoint). And the
FCC by ignoring their own rules, doesn't seem to care. And that's bad
because if it is not stopped now, but becomes widely entrenched with
millions invested, it will be economically too late to be killed.

Because of the demonstrated failures, NOW is the time to kill it...and,
for whatever reason, the FCC is in the full "Ignore" mode.

Because this is a political decision, not a technical one.

Absolutely correct, it is viewed as political, not technical. But there
is only one pesky little problem with that...NO ONE HAS YET REPEALED THE
LAWS OF PHYSICS!!!