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Clarify why the older policy wins in GEP 713 (#3436)
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only come up in exceptional circumstances.
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* Inside Inherited Policies, the same setting in `overrides` beats the one in
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`defaults`.
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* The oldest Policy based on creation timestamp beats a newer one. For example,
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a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:03" MUST be given
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precedence over a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:04".
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* The older Policy based on creation timestamp beats a newer one. For example,
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  a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:03" MUST be given
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  precedence over a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:04".
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The goal is to ensure that introducing new, unused policies doesn’t disrupt
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existing ones, since changing active rules can cause outages while altering
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unused policies poses no risk.
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* The Policy appearing first in alphabetical order by `{namespace}/{name}`. For
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example, foo/bar is given precedence over foo/baz.
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