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Add specs on Propagator API. (#147) 

* Add specs on Propagator API.

Fixes #72.

* Fix a bracket.

* Update TOC.
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**TODO**: Better describe the difference between the resource and a Node
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/issues/17
## Propagators
OpenTelemetry uses `Propagators` to serialize and deserialize `SpanContext` and `DistributedContext`
into a binary or text format. Currently there are two types of propagators:
- `BinaryFormat` which is used to serialize and deserialize a value into a binary representation.
- `HTTPTextFormat` which is used to inject and extract a value as text into carriers that travel
in-band across process boundaries.
## Agent/Collector
The OpenTelemetry service is a set of components that can collect traces,