The problem of ripple transport in a tokamak operating at low collisionality is re-examined. Such a calculation is highly sensitive to the particular condition imposed to determine the perturbed distribution function. The condition employed here is derived in a fashion fully analogous to that previously employed in simpler transport problems. In contrast, previous work on ripple transport has invoked more ad-hoc conditions based on heuristic considerations, which often turn out to be incorrect. The difference between imposing the present and previous conditions (which are themselves not in agreement) can completely change the resultant appropriate expression for the transport coefficients.