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diff --git a/docs/access.md b/docs/access.md
index 025f47b..7c576b0 100644
--- a/docs/access.md
+++ b/docs/access.md
@@ -226,8 +226,11 @@ stays as it is, wherever it comes from later (a joining node catching up, say).
* Epochs and the swarm ID (`_continuum/epochs`, `_continuum/swarm`) by an epoch's first
change only (the genesis change, a remake's snapshot).
* A remake's record and its proposal by whichever member proposes, where there are
- none; its decision by the coordinator its proposal names; an abort asked for by any
- member. The record of the remake that made an epoch, carried into it whole, by the
+ none; its decision by the coordinator its proposal names, or a user who may write
+ there; an abort by any member once the remake expired a grace period ago, by the
+ time the change says it was made (its writer's word: a member could abort a remake
+ early, never commit one); an abort asked for by any member, which the coordinator
+ applies. The record of the remake that made an epoch, carried into it whole, by the
coordinator its snapshot names, where there is none. Replacing or removing a record or its proposal, by a user who may write
there.
* What holds the members' entries, votes and remake records (`_continuum/members`,
diff --git a/docs/remakes.md b/docs/remakes.md
index b70835e..b8e0fa6 100644
--- a/docs/remakes.md
+++ b/docs/remakes.md
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ aborts it itself, under three conditions that keep it from crossing a late commi
Clocks): whether the remake expired is judged by it, and a node ahead would abort a
remake its coordinator may still commit. Otherwise `409`, unless `?force=clock`.
+With a policy ([`access.md`](access.md)), the other nodes take that abort by the time
+it says it was written: a grace period after the expiry at least.
+
A member that saw a remake expire before it voted for it says so in its log, once
(`Didn't vote for a remake`, warn if its clock is off: it then misses remakes others
still vote on).