diff --git a/zip-0244.rst b/zip-0244.rst
index 178fa77a..9782f363 100644
--- a/zip-0244.rst
+++ b/zip-0244.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ of this proposed change, transaction identifiers will be stable irrespective of
 any possible malleation of "witness data" such as proofs and transaction
 signatures.
 
+In addition, by specifying a transaction identifier and signature algorithm
+that is decoupled from the serialized format of the transaction as a whole,
+this change makes it so that the wire format of transactions is no longer 
+consensus-critical.
+
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 Requirements
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