GenAI Client Duration Metric has required provider attribute

[keith-decker]

Area(s)

area:gen-ai

What's the problem?

The duration metric for GenAI client duration metric at https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/gen-ai/gen-ai-metrics.md#metric-gen_aiclientoperationduration lists provider as required. When implementing the metrics for Execute Tools in GenAI Utils for python, it's become apparant that provider is not always available, since tool calls may not make calls to LLM providers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Perhaps setting that attribute to Conditionally Required may be the most prudent fix?

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