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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is a documentation and accessibility issue as I doubt most instances create
 Much like users picking an instance to join because of a theme or the moderation policies, instances could join a federation because of a grand moderation policy.
 
 The governance of federation is a bit outside of the scope of AP.
-A fork of AP isn't nessisary as a system of trust notaries could overlay any federating protocol.
+A fork of AP isn't necessary as a system of trust notaries could overlay any federating protocol.
 
 For brevity, an instance is referred to as a (node) below.
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The other big problem is having central authorities like Google or Apple as mode
 You can see a similar problem on the internet with certificate authorities.
 If a CA is compromised, which they have and they will, then the trust is broken at the root and anything that inherited that trust needs to have it reestablished.
 I’m not eager to apply blockchain to something that is a governance issue.
-An alternative is notaries.
+An alternative is trust notaries.
 
 # proxy consensus