assumed to be implicitly reset. After sending a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame, an endpoint immediately <del> enters the closing state. </del> <ins> enters the closing state; see closing.  After receiving a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame, endpoints enter the draining state; see draining. </ins> <del> During the closing period, an endpoint that sends a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame SHOULD respond to any incoming packet that can be decrypted with another packet containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame.  Such an endpoint SHOULD limit the number of packets it generates containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame.  For instance, an endpoint could wait for a </del> <ins> An immediate close can be used after an application protocol has arranged to close a connection.  This might be after the application protocol negotiates a graceful shutdown.  The application protocol can exchange messages that are needed for both application endpoints to agree that the connection can be closed, after which the application requests that QUIC close the connection.  When QUIC consequently closes the connection, a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame with an application-supplied error code will be used to signal closure to the peer. The closing and draining connection states exist to ensure that connections close cleanly and that delayed or reordered packets are properly discarded.  These states SHOULD persist for at least three times the current Probe Timeout (PTO) interval as defined in QUIC- RECOVERY. Disposing of connection state prior to exiting the closing or draining state could cause could result in an endpoint generating a stateless reset unnecessarily when it receives a late-arriving packet.  Endpoints that have some alternative means to ensure that late-arriving packets do not induce a response, such as those that are able to close the UDP socket, MAY end these states earlier to allow for faster resource recovery.  Servers that retain an open socket for accepting new connections SHOULD NOT end the closing or draining states early. Once its closing or draining state ends, an endpoint SHOULD discard all connection state.  The endpoint MAY send a stateless reset in response to any further incoming packets belonging to this connection. 10.2.1. An endpoint enters the closing state after initiating an immediate close. In the closing state, an endpoint retains only enough information to generate a packet containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame and to identify packets as belonging to the connection.  An endpoint in the closing state sends a packet containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame in response to any incoming packet that it attributes to the connection. An endpoint SHOULD limit the rate at which it generates packets in the closing state.  For instance, an endpoint could wait for a </ins> progressively increasing number of received packets or amount of time <del> before responding to a received packet. An endpoint is allowed to drop the packet protection keys when entering the closing period (draining) and send a packet containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE in response to any UDP datagram that is received. However, an endpoint without the packet protection keys cannot identify and discard invalid packets.  To avoid creating an unwitting amplification attack, such endpoints MUST limit the cumulative size of packets containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame to 3 times the cumulative size of the packets that cause those packets to be sent. To minimize the state that an endpoint maintains for a closing connection, endpoints MAY send the exact same packet. </del> <ins> before responding to received packets. An endpoint's selected connection ID and the QUIC version are sufficient information to identify packets for a closing connection; the endpoint MAY discard all other connection state.  An endpoint that is closing is not required to process any received frame.  An endpoint MAY retain packet protection keys for incoming packets to allow it to read and process a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame. An endpoint MAY drop packet protection keys when entering the closing state and send a packet containing a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame in response to any UDP datagram that is received.  However, an endpoint that discards packet protection keys cannot identify and discard invalid packets.  To avoid being used for an amplication attack, such endpoints MUST limit the cumulative size of packets it sends to three times the cumulative size of the packets that are received and attributed to the connection.  To minimize the state that an endpoint maintains for a closing connection, endpoints MAY send the exact same packet in response to any received packet. </ins> Allowing retransmission of a closing packet is an exception to the requirement that a new packet number be used for each packet in