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@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Maintainers ([@open-telemetry/specs-semconv-maintainers](https://github.com/orgs
 - [Johannes Tax](https://github.com/pyohannes), Grafana Labs
 - [Josh Suereth](https://github.com/jsuereth), Google
 - [Liudmila Molkova](https://github.com/lmolkova), Microsoft
-- [Reiley Yang](https://github.com/reyang), Microsoft
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+Emeritus Maintainers:
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+- [Reiley Yang](https://github.com/reyang)
 
 _Find more about the maintainer role in [community repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/guides/contributor/membership.md#maintainer)._