diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cc5505f87e7..b2b90a26deb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ release.
 
 - OpenTracing Shim: Allow invalid but sampled SpanContext to be returned.
   ([#3471](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/3471))
+- Prometheus: Allow changing metric names by default when translating from Prometheus to OpenTelemetry.
+  ([#3679](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/3679))
 
 ### SDK Configuration
 
diff --git a/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md b/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md
index 1a45751e06c..3476b212329 100644
--- a/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md
+++ b/specification/compatibility/prometheus_and_openmetrics.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ OpenTelemetry metric data. Since OpenMetrics has a superset of Prometheus' types
 ### Metric Metadata
 
 The [OpenMetrics MetricFamily Name](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#metricfamily)
-MUST be added as the Name of the OTLP metric.  By default, the name MUST be unaltered, but translation SHOULD provide configuration which, when enabled, removes type (e.g. `_total`) and unit (e.g. `_seconds`) suffixes.
+MUST be added as the Name of the OTLP metric.  By default, the name SHOULD be unaltered, but translation SHOULD provide configuration which, when enabled, removes type (e.g. `_total`) and unit (e.g. `_seconds`) suffixes.
 
 The [OpenMetrics UNIT metadata](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/main/specification/OpenMetrics.md#metricfamily),
 if present, MUST be converted to the unit of the OTLP metric.  The unit SHOULD