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This PR changes section 8.4, which is a non-normative section describing considerations when dealing with trace-id. This PR attempts to clarify that this non-normative section does not change the trace-id length requirement specified in section 3.2.

Fixes #379

`tracestate` propagation will truncate all additional values from `tracestate`
and only pass along that flag.

* This section provides guidance for dealing with short `trace-id`s generated by
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I think this point is wrong. we are not providing guidance for accepting short trace ids from non-compliant systems, but rather for systems which want to be compliant but can only process an 8 byte id.

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After conversation in the related issue, I'm closing this PR as unnecessary.

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Clarify the requirements of short trace-id in section 8.4

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