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@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ Names SHOULD follow these rules:
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- Namespaces can be nested. For example `telemetry.sdk` is a namespace inside
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top-level `telemetry` namespace and `telemetry.sdk.name` is an attribute
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inside `telemetry.sdk` namespace.
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+ Note: the fact that an entity is located within another entity is typically
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+ not a sufficient reason for forming nested namespaces. The purpose of a
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+ namespace is to avoid name clashes, not to indicate entity hierarchies. This
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+ purpose should primarily drive the decision about forming nested namespaces.
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- For each multi-word dot-delimited component of the attribute name separate the
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words by underscores (i.e. use snake_case). For example `http.status_code`
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