The defaults:

• When EF Core creates a DbConnection from a connection string, then EF Core owns that connection and will dispose it when the context is disposed.
• When the application creates a DbConnection and passes to a DbContext, then the application still owns the context and is responsible for disposing it.

The proposal here is to allow an application to pass ownership of the DbConnection to DbContext so that DbContext will handle disposing it. This existing in EF6, and we just saw a customer scenario where this would be very useful in EF Core.