Good catch. I have filed https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/1208 to
address it.

-Ekr


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:29 AM John Mattsson <john.mattsson=
40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think Section 6.1 Closure Alerts is a bit unclear:
>
> First it is stated the user_canceled SHOULD be followed by close_notify
>
>    "This alert SHOULD be followed by a "close_notify"."
>
> Then it is stated that it MUST be followed by close_notify
>
>    "Each party MUST send a "close_notify" alert before closing its write
> side of the connection,
>    unless it has already sent some error alert."
>
> And in the same section is is stated that any data folloing user_canceled
> MUST be ignored.
>
>    "Any data received after a closure alert has been received MUST be
> ignored."
>
> This seems quite contradicting to me. I don't know what the correct
> behavior would be,
> but unless I misunderstood something, it looks like it should be addressed
> in rfc8446bis.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
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