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> BTW, for thermal reasons, you typically want to specify the RMS of the
> current, not the linear average. That's quite different, say, at the input 
> of a buck SMP regulator, at least between the decoupling capacitors and the
> current switches.

At those points, it's the trace inductance that's an issue, not the
current.  I think limiting ourselves to a "current in/out" model is,
well, limiting.