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Wordsmith the TLS secure close depiction #972

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Try to wordsmith the TLS secure close depiction
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Update draft-ietf-httpbis-messaging-latest.xml
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Try to wordsmith the TLS secure close depiction 
TLS requires that you send an alert (whether error or "close_notify")
before closing the write side of your connection, but not to wait around
to receive the one from the peer.

Use wording a bit stronger than "provides a facility for" to try to
align more closely with the protocol requirements.
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Expand Up @@ -1925,11 +1925,10 @@ Connection: close

<section title="TLS Connection Closure" anchor="tls.connection.closure">
<t>
TLS provides a facility for secure connection closure through an
exchange of closure alerts prior to closing a connection
<xref target="TLS13"/>. When a valid closure alert is received,
an implementation can be assured that no further data will be received
on that connection.
TLS uses an exchange of closure alerts prior to (non-error) connection
closure to provide secure connection closure <xref target="TLS13"/>. When a
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valid closure alert is received, an implementation can be assured that no
further data will be received on that connection.
</t>
<t>
When an implementation knows that it has sent or received all the
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