diff --git a/docs/proposals/federation.md b/docs/proposals/federation.md
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--- a/docs/proposals/federation.md
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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The above use cases are by necessity left imprecisely defined.  The
 rest of this document explores these use cases and their implications
 in further detail, and compares a few alternative high level
 approaches to addressing them.  The idea of cluster federation has
-informally become known as_ "Ubernetes"_.
+informally become known as _"Ubernetes"_.
 
 ## Summary/TL;DR