Jack Berg

> Would this also apply to other instrument types? I don't think so. Counter and UpDownCounter both aggregate to sums, so a caller can multiply the value by the count...

> What about context and exemplars? Good point. Recording `50 * 5` would skew the value for exemplars. Would be good to add this parameter for other instruments as well...

I can write a benchmark, but its pretty easy to anticipate what it will yield: Whatever overhead there is to record a single measurement will be duplicated the number of...

Discussed in the 3/27/24 TC meeting. There are two points to consider: - Whether additional specification is needed around the encoding of attribute string [value types](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/tree/main/specification/common#attribute) such that attribute APIs...

This has already been discussed in several spec SIGs and more work is needed to decide what direction we should go in. Options have included: - Drop non-UTF-8 strings -...

Discussed in the 4/16/24 spec SIG. In languages like go, strings are nothing but a byte array so the idea of being able to include encoding information doesn't really work...

If its for troubleshooting purposes, have you considered just calling `AutoConfiguredOpenTelemetrySdk.getOpenTelemetrySdk().toString()`? We're pretty good about including all the useful config properties in the string output. I think it should be...

> I have spent the last few hours reading through the code and I'm similarly confused why there needs to be a distinction between config properties and structured config properties...

I acknowledge there is a need for these types of common configuration, but prefer to accomplish this by maintaining / publishing starter template config files. I imagine us expanding the...

> I think that we lack high-level design documentation for declarative config that captures the design principles, values, scope, constrains, rejected proposals. The [schema modeling rules](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#schema-modeling-rules) section is supposed to...