diff --git a/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.html b/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.html
index 51ac20425..ac84a24e5 100644
--- a/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.html
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@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ <h2 id="94-error-response-body"><a name="ErrorResponseBody" href="#ErrorResponse
 </ul>
 <p>Service implementations SHOULD carefully consider which information to include in production environments to guard against potential security concerns around information disclosure.</p>
 <h2 id="95-in-stream-errors"><a name="InStreamErrors" href="#InStreamErrors">9.5 In-Stream Errors</a></h2>
-<p>In the case that the service encounters an error after sending a success status to the client, the service MUST leave the response malformed according to its <a href="#HeaderContentType"><code>Content-Type</code></a>. Clients MUST treat the entire response as being in error.</p>
+<p>In the case that the service encounters an error after sending a success status to the client, the service MUST leave the response malformed according to its <a href="#HeaderContentType"><code>Content-Type</code></a> or abort the response by causing an error on transport protocol level. Clients MUST treat the entire response as being in error.</p>
 <p>Services MAY include the header <a href="#HeaderODataError"><code>OData-Error</code></a> as a trailing header if supported by the transport protocol (e.g. HTTP/1.1 with chunked transfer encoding, or HTTP/2).</p>
 <hr />
 <h1 id="10-context-url"><a name="ContextURL" href="#ContextURL">10 Context URL</a></h1>
diff --git a/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.md b/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.md
index a30c60bce..7e431b761 100644
--- a/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.md
+++ b/docs/odata-protocol/odata-protocol.md
@@ -1942,7 +1942,8 @@ concerns around information disclosure.
 
 In the case that the service encounters an error after sending a success
 status to the client, the service MUST leave the response malformed
-according to its [`Content-Type`](#HeaderContentType). Clients MUST treat
+according to its [`Content-Type`](#HeaderContentType) or abort the response by
+causing an error on transport protocol level. Clients MUST treat
 the entire response as being in error.
 
 Services MAY include the header [`OData-Error`](#HeaderODataError) as a
diff --git a/odata-protocol/8 Header Fields.md b/odata-protocol/8 Header Fields.md
index ea5b84cf4..0784e2d34 100644
--- a/odata-protocol/8 Header Fields.md	
+++ b/odata-protocol/8 Header Fields.md	
@@ -1067,7 +1067,8 @@ concerns around information disclosure.
 
 In the case that the service encounters an error after sending a success
 status to the client, the service MUST leave the response malformed
-according to its [`Content-Type`](#HeaderContentType). Clients MUST treat
+according to its [`Content-Type`](#HeaderContentType) or abort the response by
+causing an error on transport protocol level. Clients MUST treat
 the entire response as being in error.
 
 Services MAY include the header [`OData-Error`](#HeaderODataError) as a