Currently only used by the client. The server is not yet wired up.  A
TODO remains to document how it works server-side, once implemented.

Updates #14660

Change-Id: I27c2e74198872b2720995fa8271d91de200e23d5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/21496Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>