alignment is not the reason, other peers using the same filter is

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/draft-schanzen-r5n.xml b/draft-schanzen-r5n.xml
index af9f5c7..ad7f14b 100644
--- a/draft-schanzen-r5n.xml
+++ b/draft-schanzen-r5n.xml
@@ -2233,7 +2233,9 @@ gnunet+tcp://12.3.4.5/
             Bloom filter following the definition from <xref target="bloom_filters"/>
             and consists of a variable number of buckets <tt>L</tt>.
             <tt>L</tt> depends on the number of elements <tt>|E|</tt> known to be filtered at the
-            initiator. If <tt>|E|</tt> is zero, the size <tt>L</tt> is padded to 32 bits for alignment.
+            initiator. If <tt>|E|</tt> is zero, the size <tt>L</tt> is set to 32 bits to provide some minimum
+            space (to be used by peers when forwarding the request after
+            returning local results).
             Otherwise, <tt>L</tt> is set to the minimum of
             2<sup>18</sup> bits (2<sup>15</sup> bytes) and the lowest power
             of 2 that is strictly larger than <tt>2*K*|E|</tt> bits (<tt>K*|E|/4</tt> bytes).