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 We have implemented `RFC 7540 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540>`_
-HTTP/2 and ``RFC 7541 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541>`_ HPACK -
+HTTP/2 and `RFC 7541 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541>`_ HPACK -
 Header Compression for HTTP/2
 
 The nghttp2 code base was forked from the spdylay