CR Request for W3C Baggage

[kalyanaj]

Document title, URLs, estimated publication date

Title: Propagation Format for Distributed Context: Baggage
URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/baggage/

Abstract

Link to the editor's draft

Status

Here are the tentative dates we are targeting:
Deadline for comments: Jul 30
File for transition to recommendation: Aug 15

Link to group's decision to request transition

This is captured in the minutes of the Apr 23 2024 meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EaY1zhmlOut4qZzpFue4vLc96_GrRWMtmzXYLfd1Ehc/edit

Changes

The changes since the wide review are captured in the three issues below.

Requirements satisfied

N/A

Dependencies met (or not)

N/A

Wide Review

Yes, this was completed. w3c/baggage#91

Issues addressed

• We need to document the reasoning for the supported character range baggage#128
• Clarify whether length is in bytes or characters baggage#55
• Precent character in value must be precent-encoded baggage#124

Formal Objections

None

Implementation

This specification is implemented by OpenTelemetry SDKs. OpenTelemetry supports this in 13 languages.

Minimum CR duration: 90 days

Exit Criteria:

1. We will audit the OpenTelemetry implementation of Baggage to make sure they are following the W3C Baggage spec.
2. We will also audit a sample of OpenTelemetry's baggage test suites to verify they are testing the standard.

Patent disclosures

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/distributed-tracing/ipr/

[ylafon]

Approved

[plehegar]

(actually, PING is doing a double check)

[plehegar]

(it's not clear if the PING issues resulting in changes in the spec)

[kalyanaj]

Hi @plehegar, was just curious if you were able to connect with the Privacy group to share the minutes from our last DT WG meeting. Please let me know if I can share any more information to get this CR approved/published.

[plehegar]

Checking back on this. PING raised 2 significant issues. One was approved by the original commenter, and the other resulted in a clarification. With that mind, this transition is approved.

[plehegar]

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CR-baggage-20240530/