diff --git a/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption.md b/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption.md
index 1ac79f7a5..2ebdf28d1 100644
--- a/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption.md
+++ b/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption.md
@@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ might use the same connection, because HTTP/2 permits requests for multiple orig
 connection.
 
 Because of the risk of server confusion about individual requests' schemes (see {{confuse}}),
-clients MUST NOT send `http` requests on a connection that has previously been used for `https`
-requests, unless the http-opportunistic origin object {{well-known}} fetched over that connection
-has a "mixed-scheme" member whose value is "true".
+clients MUST NOT reuse a TLS-secured connection for `http` requests, unless the
+http-opportunistic origin object {{well-known}} for that origin has a "mixed-scheme" member
+with a Boolean value of true.
 
 
 ## The "http-opportunistic" well-known URI {#well-known}