diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a532bba5e0d..5309206b274 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ release.
 
 New:
 
+- Add Suppress Instrumentation context key
+  ([#1653](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/1653))
 - Add Metadata for Baggage entries, and clarify W3C Baggage Propagator implementation
   ([#1066](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/1066))
 - Change Status to be consistent with Link and Event
diff --git a/specification/context/context.md b/specification/context/context.md
index 7824713ce7c..56a460d2200 100644
--- a/specification/context/context.md
+++ b/specification/context/context.md
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Table of Contents
   - [Get current Context](#get-current-context)
   - [Attach Context](#attach-context)
   - [Detach Context](#detach-context)
+- [Predefined Keys](#predefined-keys)
+  - [Suppress Instrumentation](#suppress-instrumentation)
 
 </details>
 
@@ -123,3 +125,26 @@ The API MUST accept the following parameters:
 
 The API MAY return a value used to check whether the operation
 was successful or not.
+
+## Predefined Keys
+
+The following are predefined keys that may modify the behavior of multiple signals.
+For each key, there MUST be corresponding methods to set and get its value.
+The key itself MUST NOT be exposed publicly. 
+
+### Suppress Instrumentation
+
+In some cases it may be useful to temporarily disable instrumentation.
+For example, this may be used to prevent span exports from being traced and exported,
+or by an instrumentation which wraps a lower-level package which may also be
+instrumented in order to prevent duplicate spans.
+
+If this key is set to `true`, the following behavior is changed:
+
+- Any `Span` created by `StartSpan` MUST be a non-recording `Span`.
+- `Propagator#Inject` MUST NOT modify the carrier.
+- `Propagator#Extract` MUST return the `Context` passed to it as an argument unchanged.
+- `Metrics` MUST NOT be recorded.
+
+If this key is not set it is assumed to be `false`.
+The `get` method for this key MAY return `false` if the key is unset.