diff --git a/xep-0163.xml b/xep-0163.xml
index 79c6743e..e382a416 100644
--- a/xep-0163.xml
+++ b/xep-0163.xml
@@ -445,9 +445,8 @@
     <li>Support the "presence" access model and set it to the default.</li>
     <li>Support the "open", "roster", and "whitelist" access models.</li>
     <li>Treat the account owner's bare JID (&BAREJID;) as a collection node (i.e., as the root collection node for the account's virtual pubsub service).</li>
-    <li>Deliver payloads (if included) in all notifications.</li>
-    <li>Send the last publish item as described above.</li>
-    <li>Support the 'deliver_notifications' and 'send_last_published_item' configuration options.</li>
+    <li>Default the 'deliver_notifications' configuration option to true (i.e., deliver payloads by default).</li>
+    <li>Default the 'send_last_published_item' configuration option to true (i.e., send the last publish item by default).</li>
   </ul>
   <p>A PEP service MAY support other use cases, affiliations, access models, and features, but such support is OPTIONAL.</p>
 </section1>