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Add guidance on when to use and not use nested namespaces (open-telem…
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This topic has come up at least 3 times now. I believe a clarification is
warranted. The clarification is aligned with previous recommendations:
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#789 (comment)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#882 (comment)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#1194 (comment)
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tigrannajaryan authored Nov 10, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ Names SHOULD follow these rules:
- Namespaces can be nested. For example `telemetry.sdk` is a namespace inside
top-level `telemetry` namespace and `telemetry.sdk.name` is an attribute
inside `telemetry.sdk` namespace.
Note: the fact that an entity is located within another entity is typically
not a sufficient reason for forming nested namespaces. The purpose of a
namespace is to avoid name clashes, not to indicate entity hierarchies. This
purpose should primarily drive the decision about forming nested namespaces.

- For each multi-word dot-delimited component of the attribute name separate the
words by underscores (i.e. use snake_case). For example `http.status_code`
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