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 ## Time Window {#time-window}
 
-Quota policies often limit the number of acceptable requests within a given time interval, known as a time window.
+Quota policies MAY limit the number of acceptable requests within a given time interval, known as a time window.
 
 The time window is a non-negative Integer value expressing that interval in seconds, similar to the "delay-seconds" rule defined in {{Section 10.2.3 of HTTP}}. Subsecond precision is not supported.