It seems to me that as things are currently constituted, for all
practical purposes there is a separate constituency for individual
members. Recall that the criteria for the "general business"
constituency was expanded to include non-profits and other
organizations, while at the same time lowering the membership fee.
Presuming that there are many individual members, then, the
organizations that join the At-Large would be in a substantial
minority, and would probably be motivated to move to the other
constituency quickly, in any case -- there probably would be little
significant difference in fees.
So, from a practical standpoint, I don't think it makes any
difference, and therefore (in my opinion) it is not worth trying to
change things.
-- Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html