6j)     3.13 StartTime
 
"The time at which the job started"
 
Again, we are missing the definition of a grid job here. What does the "grid job started" mean here? The job was submitted to a grid broker or registered in a job pool? Or the job has reached the selected grid compute element front-end? Or the job got submitted to the batch system? Or the job started to run on a computing node in the batch system?
 
The current definition does not take into account the grid layer and probably simply assumes the last option. This might not be necessarily adequate, as resources spent for e.g. matchmaking, brokering, data staging etc may not be negligible.
Evaluation: This will be resolved with the addition of scope and context text. Again, this comment deals with grid-level accounting, not job-level.

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