About to become a reality and certainly well overdue.
Licences blanks will probably be issued to Motor Registry's for issue (as with the gun licences etc). You will take an 'authority' to the registry and 'hey presto', a licence will be issued. It will have only basic information and tghe remaining information will be captured in your log books and flight credentials sheet.
The new system will finally allow for the licence to be carried in a user-friendly format and will possibly stop a very serious problem presently being experienced in this country. That is people who suffer from diabeties and other problems presenting someone else to the doctor for a blood test etc.
There are a couple of local cases where the 'brother' appears annually for the blood test part of the medical!!!
About time and a bloody good change for the better I say!