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Added a section on protocol.
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@ -16,3 +16,16 @@ distributed applications and services. The libraries in this repository
 provide a concrete implementation of the gRPC protocol, layered over HTTP/2.
 These libraries enable communication between clients and servers using any
 combination of the supported languages. 
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+Developers using gRPC typically start with the description of an RPC service
+(a collection of methods), and generate client and server side interfaces
+which they use on the client-side and implement on the server side.
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+Protocol
+--------
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+The gRPC protocol specifies the abstract requirements for communication between
+clients and servers. A concrete embedding over HTTP/2 completes the picture by
+fleshing out the details of each of the required operations.
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