diff --git a/draft-ietf-quic-http.md b/draft-ietf-quic-http.md
index 070437d3a7..31a13dfccb 100644
--- a/draft-ietf-quic-http.md
+++ b/draft-ietf-quic-http.md
@@ -699,8 +699,8 @@ A CONNECT request MUST be constructed as follows:
   (see Section 5.3 of [RFC7230]))
 
 A CONNECT request that does not conform to these restrictions is malformed (see
-{{malformed}}).  The request stream MUST NOT be closed at the end of the
-request.
+{{malformed}}).  The request stream remains open at the end of the request to
+carry the data to be transferred.
 
 A proxy that supports CONNECT establishes a TCP connection ({{!RFC0793}}) to the
 server identified in the ":authority" pseudo-header field. Once this connection