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OpenTelemetry

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Per open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#4602

Follows open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification#4614

The goal is to make sure that PRs like these are acceptable for OTel .NET:

• all: drop attribute values restrictions opentelemetry-proto#707
• [EndGoal] [DoNotMerge] Extend the set of attribute value types opentelemetry-specification#4636

What is the expected behavior?

Investigate whether it is possible and acceptable to extend the OTel .NET API and SDK with new attribute types.

Guidelines for evolving API/SDK: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/oteps/4485-extending-attributes-to-support-complex-values.md#how

Prototype in OTel Go demonstrating feasibility of adding new attribute types: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go#6809

Which alternative solutions or features have you considered?

n/a

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