CAP - IPAWS - and The 180 Day Clock

9/1/10 - CAP Version 1.2 was adopted in June, and work on this standard is now finished. With IPAWS 1.0 adopted earlier in the year, we are now set for FEMA to take action.

Guesses still are that somewhere from late September to the First Quarter of 2011 is when the clock will start, unless the FCC reacts to the requests and delays things. However, this has not happened as yet.

Bottom line: the 180-day "Clock" has not yet started. 

You may wish to contact your favorite manufacturer or vendor for further details.

5/25/10 - EAS changes continue to slowly shuffle down the federal pipeline. At a meeting on April 13th, the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) Emergency Management Technical Committee approved CAP Version 1.2 as a Committee Specification Draft, and voting on adoption has begun.
 
Next, the OASIS standard is expected to be approved sometime after June 30th, at which point formal testing will begin, possibly in July, at the earliest. Depending upon how the testing shakes out, FEMA still intends to announce IPAWS adoption of CAP V 1.2 later this year. More information is available here  and here.

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