Can .NET support "No explicit parent Span/SpanContext allowed" spec item?

[Oberon00]

The tracing API specification was changed on September 23 to only allow a full Context as explicit parent, and a SpanContext alone or Span alone is no longer allowed. Spec references:

• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/510 "Consider using Context as the unique way to specify parenthood"
• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/875 "Span's parent must be passed as Context instead of Span(Context)s."

(How) is .NET going to implement this change?

Relatedly, I see the spec compliance matrix has "unknown" listed in this row https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/master/spec-compliance-matrix.md#traces "No explicit parent Span/SpanContext allowed".

[cijothomas]

Thanks for raising this. Can't think of an easy fix here in Otel repo. We need to plan and propose something for the next .NET cycle, as this won't be a trivial change. Keeping this issue open.

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[cijothomas]

Un-stale. This issue is unresolved. Due to the use of async-local everywhere to pass around implicit Context, I think no-one is actually hitting any issue, but its still better to keep issue as open given this is a spec requirement that .NET is not able to comply with.