@seblaz We're not opposed to this in general. But it's probably not a high priority issue for us unless there's a functional difference or problem this solves.

Originally posted by @olix0r in #7672 (comment)

Observability tools and vendors are now starting to support the OTLP protocol directly (See: https://opentelemetry.io/vendors/) so I think this should remain open as it would be ideal not to have to run an intermediary collector that speaks the OpenCensus protocol.

For example we run Datadog in our environment and have configured our applications to send B3 traces there directly. We are propagating the B3 headers through our service mesh but introducing another component to manage is not desirable.