Adding "End user Devices" to the list of "Supporting infrastructure and systems MAY include" in the Software Boundary section

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A specification that describes how to calculate a carbon intensity for software applications.

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Adding "End user Devices" to the list of "Supporting infrastructure and systems MAY include" in the Software Boundary section #267

Closed bninassi closed 2 years ago

bninassi commented 2 years ago

The current list of examples may suggest that the impact of end user devices is not to be included in the SCI computation, yet in the case of a web platform it is probably the most important source of emissions when you scales up.

Henry-WattTime commented 2 years ago

WG discussion Asim: are there other terms that encompass other types of devices? (Televisions, laptops, iot, EVs, edge devices) Pindy: Standard term? Henry: standard term, define in definitions?

Action: Benjamin, please create PR for this item in the list. -End user devices -IoT devices -Edge devices

bninassi commented 2 years ago

PR created https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/software_carbon_intensity/pull/269

atg-abhishek commented 2 years ago

Linked to PR #269 to auto-close this issue when PR is approved.