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Should HTTP duration metrics include bucket boundary of zero? #298

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Related question raised in #274 (comment)

Currently:

This metric SHOULD be specified with ExplicitBucketBoundaries of [ 0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 ].

(https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/http/http-metrics.md#metric-httpserverrequestduration)

And the question is:

what is the point of having a boundary of 0 if we know the values we observe cannot be negative?

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