Registration Images

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

As many of you know, Mike and Ann Lowe are planning to retire from the
registration job. There are already candidates to replace them. But before the
board decides who shall take on this task, it is appropriate that the position
be slightly redefined.

B B B B B B B B B B B  B  Presently Mike receives images/photos with many
registration applications, but AIS has no policy set for images with
registration. I do not know of any other registration authority for other
plant groups that does not require images with registration. The world has
changed. It is no longer difficult to create and transmit images. I feel it is
now time to catch up with the 21 st century and have a policy of asking for
one or more images of each cultivar being registered.

B B B B B B B B B B  B  This goes to the very reason of being of the Iris
Society. We should be the ultimate source of cultivar documentation. Mike
informs me, he already has the systems set up to accomplish much of this and
the Iris Encyclopedia will gladly help to archive this material and see that
library is copied also. So I would suggest a motion that AIS ask for images as
part of registration. I will suggest wording for the motion in another post.

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