The instrumentation Registry contains information about available instrumentation, facilitates discovery, installation, and configuration. The Registry allows for instrumentation to avoid depending directly on a specific SDK implementation. The SDK depends on the Registry, the instrumentation Base class depends on the Registry, and auto instrumentation libraries extend the instrumentation Base class. The motivation for decoupling the Registry (and by extension the instrumentation) from a specific SDK implementation means that anyone can implement their own OpenTelemetry API compatible SDK, and they could continue to use community made instrumentation.