From 437b4077745c5d104a18935569b7ecb3b4fc1b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darrel <darrmi@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 12:46:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added change to address #2287 (#2328)

Co-authored-by: Darrel Miller <darrel.miller@microsoft.com>
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 versions/3.1.0.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/versions/3.1.0.md b/versions/3.1.0.md
index 23dca9cd5a..22b689213f 100644
--- a/versions/3.1.0.md
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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ A self-contained or composite resource which defines or describes an API or elem
 ##### <a name="pathTemplating"></a>Path Templating
 Path templating refers to the usage of template expressions, delimited by curly braces ({}), to mark a section of a URL path as replaceable using path parameters.
 
-Each template expression in the path MUST correspond to a path parameter that is included in the [Path Item](#path-item-object) itself and/or in each of the Path Item's [Operations](#operation-object).
+Each template expression in the path MUST correspond to a path parameter that is included in the [Path Item](#path-item-object) itself and/or in each of the Path Item's [Operations](#operation-object). An exception is if the path item is empty, for example due to ACL constraints, matching path parameters are not required.
 
 ##### <a name="mediaTypes"></a>Media Types
 Media type definitions are spread across several resources.