diff --git a/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json b/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
index b917524aa08..7c03108ba5e 100644
--- a/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
+++ b/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
@@ -10386,7 +10386,7 @@
       "description": "EndpointConditions represents the current condition of an endpoint.",
       "properties": {
         "ready": {
-          "description": "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints.",
+          "description": "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.",
           "type": "boolean"
         },
         "serving": {
diff --git a/api/openapi-spec/v3/apis__discovery.k8s.io__v1_openapi.json b/api/openapi-spec/v3/apis__discovery.k8s.io__v1_openapi.json
index 43fec0cceef..0b58321e527 100644
--- a/api/openapi-spec/v3/apis__discovery.k8s.io__v1_openapi.json
+++ b/api/openapi-spec/v3/apis__discovery.k8s.io__v1_openapi.json
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
         "description": "EndpointConditions represents the current condition of an endpoint.",
         "properties": {
           "ready": {
-            "description": "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints.",
+            "description": "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.",
             "type": "boolean"
           },
           "serving": {
diff --git a/pkg/apis/discovery/types.go b/pkg/apis/discovery/types.go
index fcb9983a7e4..83e4e86c288 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/discovery/types.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/discovery/types.go
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ type EndpointConditions struct {
 	// according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value
 	// indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this
 	// unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be
-	// "true" for terminating endpoints.
+	// "true" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness
+	// behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated
+	// Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.
 	Ready *bool
 
 	// serving is identical to ready except that it is set regardless of the
diff --git a/pkg/generated/openapi/zz_generated.openapi.go b/pkg/generated/openapi/zz_generated.openapi.go
index 00a14f27e7f..e1d45751561 100644
--- a/pkg/generated/openapi/zz_generated.openapi.go
+++ b/pkg/generated/openapi/zz_generated.openapi.go
@@ -28489,7 +28489,7 @@ func schema_k8sio_api_discovery_v1_EndpointConditions(ref common.ReferenceCallba
 				Properties: map[string]spec.Schema{
 					"ready": {
 						SchemaProps: spec.SchemaProps{
-							Description: "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints.",
+							Description: "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.",
 							Type:        []string{"boolean"},
 							Format:      "",
 						},
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/generated.proto b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/generated.proto
index ef516c8896e..bb0ae281cc3 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/generated.proto
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/generated.proto
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ message EndpointConditions {
   // according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value
   // indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this
   // unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be
-  // "true" for terminating endpoints.
+  // "true" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness
+  // behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated
+  // Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.
   // +optional
   optional bool ready = 1;
 
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types.go
index 7b741e018b5..55dc4a62d44 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types.go
@@ -130,7 +130,9 @@ type EndpointConditions struct {
 	// according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value
 	// indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this
 	// unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be
-	// "true" for terminating endpoints.
+	// "true" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness
+	// behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated
+	// Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.
 	// +optional
 	Ready *bool `json:"ready,omitempty" protobuf:"bytes,1,name=ready"`
 
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
index bff5f6ae9c4..d19c6ac4e82 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/discovery/v1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func (Endpoint) SwaggerDoc() map[string]string {
 
 var map_EndpointConditions = map[string]string{
 	"":            "EndpointConditions represents the current condition of an endpoint.",
-	"ready":       "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints.",
+	"ready":       "ready indicates that this endpoint is prepared to receive traffic, according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be \"true\" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.",
 	"serving":     "serving is identical to ready except that it is set regardless of the terminating state of endpoints. This condition should be set to true for a ready endpoint that is terminating. If nil, consumers should defer to the ready condition.",
 	"terminating": "terminating indicates that this endpoint is terminating. A nil value indicates an unknown state. Consumers should interpret this unknown state to mean that the endpoint is not terminating.",
 }