> On Mar 19, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It may be worth reiterating that the protocols are independent. >> i.e. This document does not define the *combination* of TLS and RPC, >> so much as RPC carried over TLS. The underlying RPC protocol is >> largely unaware of the encapsulating TLS information. > > It is true that the RPC protocol is unchanged (except for the > addition of AUTH_TLS). However, I'm not clear what triggered > your comment. Can you expand a bit? I'm a proponent of making explicit statements. Otherwise the reader may be left with questions as to what, exactly "TLS + RPC" means. Having an explicit statement is clearer IMHO than assuming that the reader knows this implicitly. Alan DeKok.