Kevin Bowers is a Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories. Here are his views on the controversy surrounding REAL ID. What do you think?
I'm getting married this summer and my family will be traveling to the wedding. In order to make the trip, my parents recently renewed their passports. Not because I'm getting married at an exotic destination, but because they live in Montana and have to fly to the wedding. Like several other states, Montana has refused to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had threatened to prevent residents from those states from using their state-issued driver's licenses as identification at airport security, effective May 11th. As it happens, the DHS recently granted all states an extension to the May 11th deadline, allowing them additional time to become REAL ID compliant.
I'm getting married this summer and my family will be traveling to the wedding. In order to make the trip, my parents recently renewed their passports. Not because I'm getting married at an exotic destination, but because they live in Montana and have to fly to the wedding. Like several other states, Montana has refused to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had threatened to prevent residents from those states from using their state-issued driver's licenses as identification at airport security, effective May 11th. As it happens, the DHS recently granted all states an extension to the May 11th deadline, allowing them additional time to become REAL ID compliant.
