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It is the responsibility of those administering and deploying
pNFS with an NVMe layout to ensure that appropriate protection is
- deployed to that protocol. When using IP-based storage protocols
- such as NVMe on TCP, TLS <xref target="RFC8446" /> SHOULD be used
- as outlined in <xref target="NVME-TCP" /> to protect traffic between
- pNFS clients and NVMe storage devices.
+ deployed to that protocol.
+ When using IP-based storage protocols such as NVMe over TCP, data
+ confidentiality and integrity SHOULD be provided for traffic between
+ pNFS clients and NVMe storage devices by using a secure communication
+ protocol such as TLS <xref target="RFC8446" />. For NVMe over TCP,
+ TLS SHOULD be used as described in <xref target="NVME-TCP" /> to
+ protect traffic between pNFS clients and NVMe namespaces used as
+ storage devices.
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Physical security is a common means for protocols not based on IP.