Judging from the IETF mailing list it was forgotten inside the RFC document. Relevant mail is the second in the thread: >Good point. > >DTLS is intended to support extensions--and OpenSSL, at least, supports them in the same way as it does for TLS. > There probably should be a definition of ExtendedClientHello in 4346 and 6347, but it's exactly the PDU you would expect. I.e., the extensions come after the CompressionMethod. > -Ekr Thread search results [here](https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=%22DTLS+lacking+TLS+extensions%22). Contents here: [[TLS] DTLS lacking TLS extensions ?](http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08404.html), Martin Rex (Archived [here](https://archive.today/W35sp).) [Re: [TLS] DTLS lacking TLS extensions ?](http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08405.html), Eric Rescorla (Archived [here](https://archive.today/5kqGw).) [Re: [TLS] DTLS lacking TLS extensions ?](http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08406.html), Martin Rex (Archived [here](https://archive.today/1gQv8).) [Re: [TLS] DTLS lacking TLS extensions ?](http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg08407.html), Marsh Ray (Archived [here](https://archive.today/x5J7X).)