How should tracestate list members be truncated when they exceed 32?
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MrAlias commented
The tracestate header field is specified to contain at most 32 list-members. What is the expected behavior when another list-member is added?
Should the truncation schema be used to make room for the new member or is that just the action that needs to be performed when character limits are exceeded?
OpenTelemetry is currently adding support for the tracestate and this question came up there for context.
dyladan commented
The spec isn't clear here, but it would make sense to me that the behavior of truncating 128+ character entries first only applies to truncation due to byte size constraint. The 32 list-member limit should just drop the right-most key.
I agree the spec isn't clear here and it should be cleared up.