Minor updates for Requirements

Author: schnuerle

policy/README.md

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Versioning must be implemented as specified in the [Versioning section][versioni
 
 ## Background
 
-The goal of this specification is to enable Agencies to create, revise, and publish machine-readable policies, as sets of rules for individual and collective device behavior exhibited by both _mobility as a service_ Providers and riders / users. [Examples](./examples/README.md) of policies include:
+The goal of the Policy API specification is to enable agencies to create, revise, and publish machine-readable policies, as sets of rules for individual and collective device behavior exhibited by both _mobility as a service_ providers and riders / users. [Examples](./examples/README.md) of policies include:
 
 - City-wide and localized caps (e.g. "Minimum 500 and maximum 3000 scooters within city boundaries")
 - Exclusion zones (e.g. "No scooters are permitted in this district on weekends")
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The goal of this specification is to enable Agencies to create, revise, and publ
 - Idle-time and disabled-time limitations (e.g. "5 days idle while rentable, 12 hours idle while unrentable, per device")
 - Trip fees and subsidies (e.g. "A 25 cent fee applied when a trip ends downtown")
 
-The machine-readable format allows Providers to obtain policies and compute compliance where it can be determined entirely by data obtained internally.
+The machine-readable format allows Providers to obtain policies and compute compliance where it can be determined entirely by data obtained internally, and know what data is required from them and provided to them.
 
 **See the [Policy Examples](./examples/README.md) for ways these can be implemented.**
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ See the [Responses section][responses] for information on valid MDS response cod
 
 ### Authorization
 
-Authorization is not required. An agency may decide to make this endpoint unauthenticated and public. See [Optional Authentication](/general-information.md#optional-authentication) for details.
+Authorization is not required and agencies are encouraged to make these endpoints unauthenticated and public. See [Optional Authentication](/general-information.md#optional-authentication) for details.
 
 ### Policies
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Policies will be returned in order of effective date (see schema below), with pa
 
 ### Geographies
 
-**Deprecated:** see the new [Geography API](/geography#transition-from-policy) to understand the transistion away from this endpoint, and how to support both in a MDS 1.x.0 release.
+**Deprecated:** see the new [Geography API](/geography#transition-from-policy) to understand the transistion away from this endpoint, and how to support both in MDS 1.x.0 releases.
 
 **Endpoint**: `/geographies/{id}`  
 **Method**: `GET`