I have been watching this group since its inception, waiting for something that I can treat as a standard.<p>They’re trying—and I am rooting for them—but from the outside it seems piecemeal and scattered, like a side project that is nobody’s real priority. Meanwhile, other initiatives have so much movement as to be unfollowable: Zipkin! No, Jaeger! No, OpenTracing! No, OpenCensus! No, OpenTelemetry!<p>I am beginning to doubt that we will ever have a standard for distributed tracing.
Btw, if you are interested in distributed tracing, including the W3C and opentelemetry, we blog a weekly roundup about it here: <a href="https://lightstep.com/blog/category/distributed-tracing/" rel="nofollow">https://lightstep.com/blog/category/distributed-tracing/</a>
FYI for all, the W3C TraceContext specification will become a Proposed Recommendation later this week. I'm one of the co-chairs of the group and am happy to answer questions about our W3C work or OpenTelemetry.