I'm thinking of it as long term. See, my personal dilemma is I want to have people to play with now, but I also want to make sure I'll have people to play with later. So opening at the right time is key. :P
What I understand of the new clan system is that us members must request membership into the clan and then you burrito must accept us. Just belonging to the group won't get us into the clan if you get my meaning. So, I think, once the update hits we members will have to send a request to join the clan and once you've accepted us all back in and we have a better idea of how the clan thing works I say open it up and let folks in.
Also, I'm not sure if the same criteria that was used to gain membership through halo will work for destiny. Being a new IP and all. I'm sure there are a few Playstation folk that would like to join because of the longevity of the group and our size. With that being said, the bonus to opening it up once the change happens is that we can test out the clan feature during the beta. According to the weekly update I believe, it said that you can actually see your clan members that are online. If that works during the beta then the thread I started for finding online players might be obsolete.