There is a concept that they know how many hours to request. There has to be a mapping to something the users are familiar with so. Glenn - In line with Ian's and Carl's comments. There were some semantic issues on what is an account and what is an allocation. Would be a good idea to define what we mean on terms.
Account is an overloaded term.
Look at what assumptions we are making about underlying capabilities. And how do authorization, etc. There are some assumptions about a number of things. We could then look at schemes etc. Had trouble mapping how free market would match NSF allocates.