The MOSS Records Center is designed to work in the same way old physical record file rooms do. Once documents are no longer active, they are sent to the file room for retention. This is fine for space management needs when these records are not accessed often.    But when managing electronic records, the main preference is to manage records in place within the ECM repository, not move them to a different repository outside of the context of their business unit taxonomy.    In addition there is a need to apply retention policies as soon as they are created. In other words, the retention needs to be managed while the documents are still actively being utilized. Because of this there is no practicality in copying an active electronic document to a separate repository just so full records management policies can be applied to the document (especially when they can be applied in the original library).  

I think a better approach is to build custom RM actions around source libraries using workflow, list views, custom file plan list and reporting services.

Does anyone agree?  Disagree?