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TheOpenTelemetry specification describes the cross-languagerequirements and expectations for all OpenTelemetry implementations.

• Thelatest release is hosted atopentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel
• Markdown sources are underspecification

For details, seeCONTRIBUTING.md, in particular readProposing a change before submitting a PR.

Questions that need additional attention can be brought to the regularspecifications meeting. EU and US timezone friendly meeting is held everyTuesday at 8 AM Pacific time. Meeting notes are held in theGoogledoc.APAC timezone friendly meetings are held on request. SeeOpenTelemetry calendar.

Escalations to technical committee may be made over thee-mail.Technical committee holds regular meetings, notes are heldhere.

SeeCompliance of Implementations withSpecification.

The current project status as well as information on notable past releases is found atthe OpenTelemetry project page.

Information about current work and future development plans is found at thespecification development milestones.

Changes to thespecification are versioned according toSemantic Versioning 2.0 and described inCHANGELOG.md. Layout changes are not versioned. Specific implementations of the specification should specify which version they implement.

Changes to the change process itself are not currently versioned but may be independently versioned in the future.

By contributing to OpenTelemetry Specification repository, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under itsApache 2.0 License.

• OpenTelemetry Technical Committee

For more information about the maintainer role, see thecommunity repository.

• OpenTelemetry Specification Sponsors

For more information about the approver role, see thecommunity repository.

• OpenTelemetry Governance Committee

For more information about the triager role, see thecommunity repository.