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Add caveat about what greasing doesn't do
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draft-edm-protocol-greasing.md

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Documents can also provide test vectors, when applicable, that include grease values
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to ensure they are processed correctly.
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One limitation of greasing is that it only exercises grease values. It does not check whether
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other values that are reserved for future use are correctly treated as ignored or errors.
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As such, ossification remains a possibility for non-grease values. The goal of greasing
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is to increase the chances of correct implementation, and there by reduce (but not
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eliminate) the possibility of ossification.
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# Deployment Considerations and Incentives for Greasing
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Greasing can be used as a tool to improve the active use of existing protocol

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