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Document IsRemote flag should not be propagated to children. #523

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@toumorokoshi

The current spec calls out that a span propagated from a remote must set the "IsRemote" flag:

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/master/specification/api-tracing.md#spancontext

But I don't see anywhere the explicitly specifies this flag should not be populated to child spans. I think not clarifying this creates ambiguity that might be misinterpreted by different implementations:

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#516 (comment)

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