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Add explicit status to all sub-sections in "Mixed" document #3460

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## General Guidelines

**Status**: [Experimental](../../document-status.md)

Metric names and attributes exist within a single universe and a single
hierarchy. Metric names and attributes MUST be considered within the universe of
all existing metric names. When defining new metric names and attributes,
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## General Metric Semantic Conventions

**Status**: [Mixed](../../document-status.md)

The following semantic conventions aim to keep naming consistent. They
provide guidelines for most of the cases in this specification and should be
followed for other instruments not explicitly defined in this document.

### Instrument Naming

**Status**: [Experimental](../../document-status.md)

- **limit** - an instrument that measures the constant, known total amount of
something should be called `entity.limit`. For example, `system.memory.limit`
for the total amount of memory on a system.
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### Consistent UpDownCounter timeseries

**Status**: [Experimental](../../document-status.md)

When recording `UpDownCounter` metrics, the same attribute values used to record an increment SHOULD be used to record
any associated decrement, otherwise those increments and decrements will end up as different timeseries.

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