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+This package defines a remote transport for Beam services using http2/spdy and tls.
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+Pointers:
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+	* Low-level protocol framer: http://code.google.com/p/go.net/spdy
+	* (incomplete) high-level server implementation: https://github.com/shykes/spdy-go