You ask, "What is your opinion and/or practice, the archival principles 
are aplied to records management issues"?

Could you give more of an angle of inquiry?  This is a very big topic, and 
one that differs greatly when taken from the philosophical base of the US 
model versus the Canadian, and European which have influenced Asian 
models. 

In my personal philosophy (and put too simply here) archives is integral 
to recorded information management. There are specializations as in any 
domain, and there is differentiation within the domains.  However, I do 
not personaly subscribe to the idea that information managment domains are 
well served by differentiation at senior levels.  It is necessary for 
competency at journeymen levels, but a synthisis and over-arching grasp of 
the meaning of information resources through time is critical at senior 
decision making levels of organizations. Often, archives is approached as 
a quasi (and out of touch) library function and RM is approached as a 
clerical and warehousing function.  Both domains waste their potential in 
this way. But one can roll along a long time like that!

You may be interested in developments in knowledge resource managmeent and 
intellectual capital assessment (not IP, per se).  Metadata definition and 
conceptual work in the complex array of values is also an exciting area. 

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