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Specify MeterProvider impl creation in SDK doc (open-telemetry#3067)
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Currently the metric specification defines a normative recommendation
for API implementations in the API specification. The API specification
should be scope to specify the API, not the implementation. Instead move
this recommendation to the SDK specification where the implementation of
the API should be specified.
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MrAlias authored Feb 1, 2023
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6 changes: 0 additions & 6 deletions specification/metrics/api.md
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Thus, the API SHOULD provide a way to set/register and access a global default
`MeterProvider`.

Notwithstanding any global `MeterProvider`, some applications may want to or
have to use multiple `MeterProvider` instances, e.g. to have different
configuration for each, or because its easier with dependency injection
frameworks. Thus, implementations of `MeterProvider` SHOULD allow creating an
arbitrary number of `MeterProvider` instances.

### MeterProvider operations

The `MeterProvider` MUST provide the following functions:
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<!-- toc -->

- [MeterProvider](#meterprovider)
* [MeterProvider Creation](#meterprovider-creation)
* [Meter Creation](#meter-creation)
* [Shutdown](#shutdown)
* [ForceFlush](#forceflush)
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specification](../trace/sdk.md#additional-span-interfaces) has provided some
suggestions regarding how to implement this efficiently.

### MeterProvider Creation

The SDK SHOULD allow the creation of multiple independent `MeterProvider`s.

### Meter Creation

New `Meter` instances are always created through a `MeterProvider`
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