[J3] For air travel to the J3 meeting in October, you may need a different ID

[Steve Lionel]

Most of you have heard of "RealID", where a US drivers license needs 
additional features to become acceptable for air travel. If you have a 
license from a state that has been granted an extension, and don't yet 
have a RealID-compliant license (me and me), note that the current round 
of extensions expire October 10, 2018, just before the next J3 meeting.  
There are a number of other IDs that are acceptable, including US 
passports and passport cards, Global Entry cards, etc. See 
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id to see where your state is at in this 
process. If your state's extension will expire, you'll need to bring a 
compliant ID.

It's entirely possible, of course, that the extensions will be extended 
again. I had thought I was good until October 2020 (by which time I 
would have renewed my license with a compliant one), so it was a bit of 
a shock to see that wasn't the case.

Steve