John Watson

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> > How is the env var not also user-provided? > > Fair nuff, completely depends on the deployment scheme and the definition of "user" versus "ops" or "admin" or...

> > this code is likely to change going forward given the instability of resource semantic conventions > > oh, this is an interesting point, that these 2 artifacts are...

Is the only real-life case we're concerned about mobile IP addresses changing? Or would there be server implementations out there that we would expect to have IP addresses change out...

> Then metrics are being produced already with the 1.13.0 semantics. Maybe we need some tests around this. which metrics? From which instrumentation?

We're currently using this at Verta, so I would prefer that we don't drop support for it quite yet.

> Yeah I'm proposing that we keep it in the splunk distro until we deprecate the Smart Agent, which won't happen until December, but I figured upstream could get ahead...

I strongly disagree with this idea. People understand what "events" are. This new language will ensure no one will understand what they are, and therefore make it something people are...

I firmly believe that if we define and explain "OpenTelemetry Event API" to people, it will not be confusing to 99% of our users. If we call something "OpenTelemetry Categorized...

@guizmaii this has now been released, so should be available. I have verified it can be downloaded via those maven coordinates.

> so any schedule for summary api? no. Since this isn't a part of the standard spec, we're probably not going to build it until it becomes part of it.