diff --git a/draft-ietf-quic-tls.md b/draft-ietf-quic-tls.md
index 4d9b142dbf..2c544a3cb7 100644
--- a/draft-ietf-quic-tls.md
+++ b/draft-ietf-quic-tls.md
@@ -1048,21 +1048,26 @@ When AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305 is in use, header protection uses the raw ChaCha20
 function as defined in Section 2.4 of {{!CHACHA}}.  This uses a 256-bit key and
 16 bytes sampled from the packet protection output.
 
-The first 4 bytes of the sampled ciphertext are interpreted as a 32-bit number
-in little-endian order and are used as the block count; a ChaCha20
-implementation might instead take the 4 bytes as an opaque sequence of bytes.
-The remaining 12 bytes are used as the nonce.
+The first 4 bytes of the sampled ciphertext are the block counter.  A ChaCha20
+implementation could take a 32-bit integer in place of a byte sequence, in
+which case the byte sequence is interpreted as a little-endian value.
+
+The remaining 12 bytes are used as the nonce. A ChaCha20 implementation might
+take an array of three 32-bit integers in place of a byte sequence, in which
+case the nonce bytes are interpreted as a sequence of 32-bit little-endian
+integers.
 
 The encryption mask is produced by invoking ChaCha20 to protect 5 zero bytes. In
 pseudocode:
 
 ~~~
-counter = DecodeLE(sample[0..3])
-nonce = sample[4....15]
+counter = sample[0..3]
+nonce = sample[4..15]
 mask = ChaCha20(hp_key, counter, nonce, {0,0,0,0,0})
 ~~~
 
 
+
 ## Receiving Protected Packets
 
 Once an endpoint successfully receives a packet with a given packet number, it