The layered discharge is still a mystery to physicists. Experimental data obtained by various investigators in recent years have contributed greatly to clarifying the question of the origin of strata. However, there is still no unified theory explaining all the bizarre forms that the stratified discharge takes under different discharge conditions. Our hypothesis of the connection of strata with the group of waves of fluctuations of the plasma potential has met with a number of objections printed in the discussion paper by V. V. Potemkin and M. E. Herzenstein. The objections are basically summarized as follows: 1) the wave group of high-frequency plasma oscillations is strongly attenuated in space and cannot give a stable stratum pattern over the length of the gas-discharge tube; 2) the wave packet is blurred and cannot form a stable stratum pattern in time; 3) high-frequency plasma oscillations are very weak, detected only in the cathode region of the discharge and not always.