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Clarify why the older policy wins in GEP 713 (#3436)
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spacewander authored Nov 7, 2024
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only come up in exceptional circumstances.
* Inside Inherited Policies, the same setting in `overrides` beats the one in
`defaults`.
* The oldest Policy based on creation timestamp beats a newer one. For example,
a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:03" MUST be given
precedence over a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:04".
* The older Policy based on creation timestamp beats a newer one. For example,
  a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:03" MUST be given
  precedence over a Policy with a creation timestamp of "2021-07-15 01:02:04".
The goal is to ensure that introducing new, unused policies doesn’t disrupt
existing ones, since changing active rules can cause outages while altering
unused policies poses no risk.
* The Policy appearing first in alphabetical order by `{namespace}/{name}`. For
example, foo/bar is given precedence over foo/baz.

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