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citation for Busby is Busby v. State, 40 P.2d 807 (Alaska App. 2002).
By its own terms, under the 1949 UN Convention on International Road Traffic, 3 US Treaties 3008, Cong.Rec., Aug. 9, 1950, perm.ed. pp.12090-93, altho it is called a permit, the International Driving Permit does not, by itself, authorize anyone to operate any sort of vehicle, nor can it be used separate from an official home-state driver's license. The IDP exists solely to provide multilingual translations of the data that appears on the official DL for the convenience of drivers and police in foreign countries who do not understand English; as it offers a translation of the official DL, it is supposed to be used in tandem with the official DL, and obviously it only has a use in a country that uses another language.
The IDP is supposed to be issued in the driver's home country, from an agency authorized by the national govt. In the US, the State Dept has authorized the AAA and the American Automobile Touring Alliance to issue IDPs ... and they do, for about $10(!). Some con artists are selling doubtful IDPs on the internet to wannabe sovereigns at a price of as much as $300(!), sometimes even suggesting that the IDP could be issued in a fake identity; the supposed IDPs are generated from a travel agency in the Caribbean, which is apparently NOT authorized even by its own govt, and since these don't match the country of the official DL, are more likely to generate trouble than avoid it. If the IDP has data on it that disagrees with the official DL, the likelihood of trouble becomes a certainty. Americans peddling such IDPs on the internet have been criminally prosecuted.
There is no provision for revoking an IDP because of traffic offenses, but an IDP will not suffice to authorize driving when the official DL has been suspended.
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