3.1.28 Commitment Discount Unit

Commitment Discount Unit represents the service-provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a service provider measures the Commitment Discount Quantity of a commitment discount. The CommitmentDiscountUnit column is only applicable to commitment discounts and not negotiated discounts.

CommitmentDiscountUnit adheres to the following requirements:

• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be present in a Cost and Usage FOCUS dataset when the service provider supports commitment discounts.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be of type String.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit SHOULD conform to UnitFormat requirements.
• CommitmentDiscountUnit nullability is defined as follows:
  • CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST be null when CommitmentDiscountQuantity is null.
  • CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST NOT be null when CommitmentDiscountQuantity is not null.
• When CommitmentDiscountUnit is not null, CommitmentDiscountUnit adheres to the following additional requirements:
  • CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST remain consistent over time for a given CommitmentDiscountId.
  • CommitmentDiscountUnit MUST represent the unit used to measure the commitment discount.
  • When accounting for commitment discount flexibility, the CommitmentDiscountUnit value SHOULD reflect this consideration.

See Examples: Commitment Discount Flexibility for more details around commitment discount flexibility.

The service-provider-specified measurement unit indicating how a service provider measures the Commitment Discount Quantity of a commitment discount.