OTEPs

Defines consistent requirements for all OpenTelemetry implementations, ensuring telemetry data like traces and metrics are collected uniformly across programming languages, as stated in the specification's goal to eliminate fragmentation.

Features a well-defined change process with regular specifications meetings and technical committee oversight, detailed in the README's questions and contribution sections, ensuring transparent and managed updates.

Provides a compliance matrix that tracks how each language implementation adheres to the spec, allowing users to verify interoperability and standards adherence, as highlighted in the README.

Establishes a standardized approach that works across environments, reducing vendor lock-in and promoting interoperability in observability tools, per the project's philosophy of vendor-neutral observability.