diff --git a/specification/api-tracing.md b/specification/api-tracing.md
index 9e3a5567a12..6a3eec74dd0 100644
--- a/specification/api-tracing.md
+++ b/specification/api-tracing.md
@@ -73,26 +73,26 @@ A duration is the elapsed time between two events.
 ## Tracer
 
 A `Tracer` is the code responsible for how `Spans`s are started and ended, and
-it exposes the API which [library developers](#library-developer) use when
-instrumenting their code. The API MUST allow the [end user](#end-user) to
+it exposes the API which [library developers](glossary.md#library-developer) use when
+instrumenting their code. The API MUST allow the [end user](glossary.md#end-user) to
 configure or specify at runtime the implementation, the default full
 implementation is referred to as the SDK in this spec, which is used by all
 instrumented code within the program.
 
-If the [end user](#end-user) does not set a `Tracer` to be used and does not
+If the [end user](glossary.md#end-user) does not set a `Tracer` to be used and does not
 include the library which implements the `Tracer`, like the OpenTelemetry SDK,
 the API must include a default minimal implementation which acts as a no-op
-`Tracer`. The [library developers](#library-developer) *must* be able to depend
+`Tracer`. The [library developers](glossary.md#library-developer) *must* be able to depend
 on the API and instrument their code without thought to whether or not the final
 deployable application includes the SDK or any other implementation.
 
-To facilitate this, the [library developer](#library-developer) can *not*
+To facilitate this, the [library developer](glossary.md#library-developer) can *not*
 specify a `Tracer` implementation to use. The API *must* provide a way for the
 developer to access a `Tracer`, which at runtime may be the default minimal
 implementation from the API, the default full implementation known as the SDK or
 a third party implementation.
 
-However, even though the [library developer](#library-developer) cannot define
+However, even though the [library developer](glossary.md#library-developer) cannot define
 an implementation to use, they can, and should, give the `Tracer` a name and version:
 
 - `name` (optional): This name must identify the instrumentation library (also
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ that have been created.
 
 Since whether there is a cache that acts as a registry of name's to `Tracer`s is
 outside the scope of the API, the API *must* provide only one function for the
-[library developer](#library-developer) to access a `Tracer`. Meaning, there
+[library developer](glossary.md#library-developer) to access a `Tracer`. Meaning, there
 can not be `GetTracer` and `NewTracer` functions becuase the API is oblivious to
 the underlying implementation.
 
diff --git a/specification/glossary.md b/specification/glossary.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2a0d7389ad6
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+++ b/specification/glossary.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Glossary
+
+## User Definitions
+
+- <a name="library-developer"></a>Library Developer: This is a developer working
+  on code that will be used by others. They are not creating a final
+  deployable artifact and must only rely on the OpenTelemetry API as a
+  dependency of their library.
+- <a name="end-user"></a>End User: An end user is responsible for code that
+  becomes a deployable artifact to run with some configuration by
+  an operator. The end user's project may depend on third party libraries that
+  have been instrumented and may include its own libraries, making the end
+  user potentially a library developer as well. But only the end user, or
+  operator, may include an OpenTelemetry SDK implementation as a dependency and
+  configure, either through code or configuration files loaded by the program,
+  the `Tracer` used by all libraries within the final program.
+- <a name="operator"></a>Operator: