docs: tweak wording about service identities (#5794)

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@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ discovered_ and to _discover other healthy service instances_. Suitable
policies tend to all look nearly identical so a service identity is a policy
template to aid in avoiding boilerplate policy creation.
At authorization time a service identity acts like an additional policy was
attached to the token with the following contents:
During the authorization process, the configured service identity is automatically
applied as a policy with the following preconfigured [ACL
rules](/docs/acl/acl-system.html#acl-rules-and-scope):
```hcl
// Allow the service and its sidecar proxy to register into the catalog.