and can otherwise use the same alphabet and bit length. Since
the time stamps are essentially an increasing sequence, it's
sufficient to have a <em>flag second</em> in which all machines
- in the cluster stop serving and request, and stop using the old
+ in the cluster stop serving any request, and stop using the old
encoding format. Afterwards they can resume requests and begin
issuing the new encodings.</p>
and can otherwise use the same alphabet and bit length. Since
the time stamps are essentially an increasing sequence, it's
sufficient to have a <em>flag second</em> in which all machines
- in the cluster stop serving and request, and stop using the old
+ in the cluster stop serving any request, and stop using the old
encoding format. Afterwards they can resume requests and begin
issuing the new encodings.</p>