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resort to working strips, which has never been a satisfactory conting ency. Fortunately it was a time of the evening when traffic was light. ZOA rerouted some Oceanic tracks and ZAN was able to get aircraft out of their airspace. Working with the Tech Center it was discovered that the failure was caused by a memory leak intr oduced in T25 (the last software drop). Situation has been remedied and has provided more push for an acceptable Oceanic short - term contingency. The ASEPS HITL Dry Run was performed the week of 8/7 at the Tech Center. John Fox from ZNY and I ran the HITL s to ensure they were ready for the ZNY controllers go to the Tech Center and run the r educed separation HITLs the week of 9/11. The goal is to capture c ontroller reaction time and feasibility while using a 15 - mile and 23 - mile longitudinal and lateral sepa ration standard in the Oceanic environment. For this , NATCA is ensuring the HITLs are realistic and the proper briefing, training, and feedback forms are present. We have opened discussions with the ATOC team and AJV84 in reference to a short term contin gency for ATOP. Many i deas are being discussed. The Dual Channel Failure at ZAN has provided more push to this. ASEPS SRM was held at Indianapolis ARTCC the week of 8/21. This SRM is attached to the investment phase. A collateral benefit of the Spaced Ba sed ADS - B SRM is we have the opportunity to revisit topics that have been difficult to pursue like WX deviations while utilizing reduced separation and contingency dynamics. 9/6 and 9/7 the Airspace Managers and N ATCA Reps from ZNY, ZMA, and ZSU and myse lf will be meeting at AJV84. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the requirements for transitioning Oceanic traffic into the Radar environment , along with the separation standards. There is some confusion within the facilities on what is allowed and what is not. Also we plan on an ATOP familiarization. We feel familiarization is necessary for two facilities to construct an effective LOA. I will mitigate t he meeting for the NATCA side. A IR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Arti cle 114 Repr esentative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below: I attended the Mobile IFR clearance de livery research demonstration. The demo demonstrated a concept that allows pilots to receive IFR c learance from a mobile device. The dem o also demonstrated the possibility of IFR release being ob tained from the mobile device. The concept is in the early st ages and NATCA will provide SME s to MITRE to assist in the development. AIM S eg 3 T he wo rk on this project is ongoing. The con ops and shortfall a nalysis is a work - in - progress. The concept i s to digitize all paper IE: LOA s, SOP s, charts, orders, etc. The issue brought to light by NATCA is the absence of a method for controller s to obtain the digitized versions of reference material for th e pu rpose of studying and training. I will keep the membership posted moving forward.