Specification Principles

This document defines common principles that will help designers create and extend the OpenTelemetry specification to adapt to new use cases and fix issues.

OpenTelemetry Mission and Values

It should be taken in context of the overall values of OpenTelemetry, which lays out the following core values:

• Telemetry should be easy
• Telemetry should be universal
• Telemetry should be vendor-neutral
• Telemetry should be loosely-coupled
• Telemetry should be built-in

Additionally, it lays out the following core Engineering Values: