Add more normative text for flags processing in traceresponse
kalyanaj opened this issue · 0 comments
@basti1302 had suggestions in #533 for normative language related to flags in traceresponse, filing this issue to track it:
From @basti1302 :
I was thinking about some explicit normative language like the following:
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A participant that starts or restarts the trace by generating a new trace-id MUST apply the rules for (re)starting a trace stated in the section on the random trace ID for traceparent for the flag value in the traceresponse header as well.
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A participant that uses the same trace-id in traceresponse as it received in the incoming traceparent header MUST also set the random-trace-id flag to the same value that was found in that traceparent header.
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If a participant did not receive an incoming traceparent header, but it received a traceresponse header from downstream, and it wants to communicate the trace-id from that traceresponse header upstream, it MUST use the same random-trace-id flag value as in that traceresponse header.
Side note: The last bullet point refers to the non-normative example in the section "Load Balancer Deferred Sampling".