At NIPWG4 in 2017 the development of the S-126 (physical environment) Product Specification was put on hold due to lack of resources and the fact that the S-126 dataset is not a SOLAS carriage requirement. However, there were a few outstanding items from previous meetings (NIPWG3, ice related info and NIPWG4, gaps in listed S126 items) that were completed as well as other S-126 related work. The status of that work will be discussed in this paper along with recommendations on how best to continue