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# iconia: A Service Gateway
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD",
"SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be
interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
## Abstract
Operating TCP services in production environments can be a troublesome thing in
practice. At smaller scales it is easy to have a single server terminating a
single service. Once that scales however, that gets more and more difficult as
the complexity of the setup increases.
We need a better option.
Iconia is a service gateway designed to help alleviate these problems while
maintaining the