Foreign Registrar Fees - Motion

[John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

I don't have complete information on the charges levied by all of the Associate Registrars but this is what I think is the status (conversion rates approximate):

Germany - 5€ (USD $7.16)
France - 3€ (USD $4.30)
Italy - 6€ (USD $8.59)
Great Britain - £ (USD $2.45)
Russian (USD $5.00)
Australia - AUD $6.00  (USD $6.25)
New Zealand $0.00  (yes, no fee that I know of)

I hope that by offering to share part of the AIS fee with the Associate Registrars, we can at least mitigate some of the issues with foreign registrations being in many cases much higher than North American fees. We will never be able to make them completely even around the world, and we should make our offer the same to everyone. I don't know how the proposal below will be accepted by the Associate Registrars, but it is the best I have been able to come up with.


Therefore I move that the fee for foreign registrations and name reservations be established as follows:

That each foreign registrant pay a fee of USD$15.00 (or its equivalent in the country currency) per iris registration or iris name reservation to the country Associate Registrar. That the country Associate Registrar keep USD$5.00 (or its equivalent in the country currency)  per iris registration or iris name reservation and pay the AIS USD$10.00  per iris registration or iris name reservation, such payments to the AIS to be made via a PayPal system or such other arrangements as may be enumerated by the AIS Registrar-Recorder for his convenience. All payments to the AIS registrar to be made in USD. The AIS respectfully requests, but does not require, the country Associate Registrars to accept the USD$5.00 stipend as full payment for their services as Associate Register in managing iris registrations and iris name reservations. That the services of the country Associate Registrar include, but may not be limited to,  iris name checking against the irisregister.com database, translation (as appropriate), transliteration (as appropriate), and description review ad editing.

Respectfully,

John

__________________ 
John I Jones
Registrar-Recorder
American Iris Society
aisregistrar@irises.org


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