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 - **Public API**: Any definitions and declarations under `include/libpldm`.
 
+- **Wire format**: Any message structure defined in the DMTF PLDM protocol
+  specifications.
+
 ## Elaborations
 
 - Resource exhaustion is always an error condition and never an invariant