diff --git a/envoy/config/filter/network/http_connection_manager/v2/http_connection_manager.proto b/envoy/config/filter/network/http_connection_manager/v2/http_connection_manager.proto
index 81cc9013..9b01505e 100644
--- a/envoy/config/filter/network/http_connection_manager/v2/http_connection_manager.proto
+++ b/envoy/config/filter/network/http_connection_manager/v2/http_connection_manager.proto
@@ -137,14 +137,13 @@ message HttpConnectionManager {
   // header in responses. If not set, the default is *envoy*.
   string server_name = 10;
 
-  // The maximum request headers size for incoming connections. The default max
-  // is 60K, based on default settings for http codecs. For HTTP1, the current
-  // limit set by http_parser is 80K. for HTTP2, the default allowed header
-  // block in nghttp2 is 64K. The max configurable setting is 64K in order to
-  // stay under both codec limits.
-  // Requests that exceed this size will receive a 431 response.
+  // The maximum request headers size for incoming connections.
+  // If unconfigured, the default max request headers allowed is 60 KiB.
+  // Requests that exceed this limit will receive a 431 response.
+  // The max configurable limit is 96 KiB, based on current implementation
+  // constraints.
   google.protobuf.UInt32Value max_request_headers_kb = 29
-      [(validate.rules).uint32.gt = 0, (validate.rules).uint32.lte = 64];
+      [(validate.rules).uint32.gt = 0, (validate.rules).uint32.lte = 96];
 
   // The idle timeout for connections managed by the connection manager. The
   // idle timeout is defined as the period in which there are no active