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I already made a comment about this in the original PR at #1027 (comment) where @kenfinnigan then explained why a parent/child relationship might not always be possible or applicable.
Maybe we understand this problem better now that the first Kafka instrumentations based on these semantic conventions were already developed.
CC @anuraaga who might have an opinion here.
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My views have evolved somewhat, but I think it's also colored by #65 not being resolved, and how the spans look when visualized.
While I still think it makes sense for producing a new message to have no parent on the "process" of the existing one, it really messes with the visualization aspect as it gives the impression, as I mentioned in #1085 (comment), that the production of a new message is a child of the incoming span.
I'm ok with adjusting things as it makes the visualization clearer. Maybe it is revisited when there is a concept of "follows from".