Well said Don.  Speaking of the definition of Information Governance and whether Records Management is part of it or an overlap of it, I see this term being exploited and eventually made meaningless by the number of vendors jumping on the IG bandwagon to sell software.  Even some consultants (most without RM experience) are touting IG as the way to manage information - usually by purchasing some expensive software and accompanying experts to install and administrate it. 

I think some of the confusion lies in the scope of Records Management as perceived by practitioners and non-practitioners alike.  All the RM jobs I have had since 1966 required me to apply various RM principles to a variety of information (records, documents and data) not just to declared records.  Other RM professionals I know have mostly had experience in applying  RM principles to only declared records.   Others have had to deal with a little of both.  By allowing vendors to "define" IG through the application of products rather than principles, we run the risk of the term becoming as confusing as "records management systems" became a number of years ago.

Ginny Jones 
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI) 
Records Manager 
Information Technology Division 
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities 
Newport News, VA 
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