Re: AIS: REF: AIS as International Registration Authority

For as long as I can remember I have heard people say they wish there were pictures with registration. But there have always been so many problems noted that nothing has been done. The biggest problem was that it is too big a task for the AIS registrar to handle. What I am proposing in having each section collect and hold this data overcomes that obstacle. As I see it also has many advantages over one person responsible for it all. I dont mind problems being noted but I believe some of the obstacles thrown up have solutions that the person noting them knows how they can be overcome already. I like the idea of each section being responsible for this work because it allows for many possible methods to be applied and then results can be compared and each group can learn from the others work. It is sort of like color photos in newsletters. At the time some people felt I destroyed SIGNA by introducing color into its newsletter and I was told so. But with persistence I established color
 and soon almost no one wanted to go back. Other sections felt compelled to upgrade their newsletters also. There is a certain competition among editors to make their journal the best. The same thing will happen with archivist/recorders. Each will see what other groups are doing and think of ways to do better. I really dont mind ideas discussed that talk about doing a better job. But more importantly it will take a good deal of discussion to get the job started and at the moment it seems to me to be more important to overcome the inertia of nothing happening before we can try to improve on the situation. At present hybridizers may send images, digital, prints, slides, whatever, of their new introductions to Sandra Barss (intermediates), Chuck Bunnell (MTBs), Dana Brown (SDBs) and Nylah Hughes (BBs) or to myself.  After the new R & I  comes out in January I hope to begin writing to each registrant to encourage them. Other sections presently are discussing how they will go about
 doing this. I hope that this will be a provocative topic at the St Louis Convention. I have a great deal of experience with this issue having been building an archive for the illustrated Iris encyclopedia that I have been working on for ten years and currently the Illustrated Spuria Checklist. So despite opinions to the contrary I have given this a great deal of thought and have hands on experience. I also have some conception of what is practical. Those who are looking for a perfect system will be disappointed. But for those that take a realistic view of what pictures can offer I believe they will not be disappointed. 

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