OK, Dan Dailey has convinced me. I will no longer speak in any way of a "minimal command set". Version 3 of my goals document instead calls it a "tournament command set", the plan being that if you want to use GTP for tournaments, you *must* implement all these commands, but all others are optional for tournament play. Do other people see this as a good change? It seems that most people who spoke of a minimal command set really meant "a command set if you just want to set up games and play them", but that seems still too vague, so I think "tournament command set" is a better way to put it. Dan, are you satisfied with this change? Or do you still have issues with having a subset of the commands being given different priority in this way?
I have to say that I haven't been following that thread carefully.
I would give one reason for having a "minimal command set" which is that doing so is a big step towards standardization. But I have't reviewed the arguments against it. I'm travelling now and not reading my e-mail as carefully as I usually do.
Dan