TLS will provide assurance of client identity as long as there's no intermediate termination; like (say) TLS inspection, an API gateway, a CDN or an L7 load bal

TLS will provide assurance of client identity as long as there's no intermediate termination; like (say) TLS inspection, an API gateway, a CDN or an L7 load balancer. This specification allows the use of TLS for per-hop confidentiality with end-to-end assurance of identity.