diff --git a/rfc/20241206-oci-registries/3-design-considerations.md b/rfc/20241206-oci-registries/3-design-considerations.md
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@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ One of the main goals of supporting OCI is to ease the maintenance burden, not a
 
 Since the path forward on signing is currently not clear, we will defer signing to a later release. This is in line with the lack of support for signing in the [Provider Network Mirror Protocol](https://opentofu.org/docs/internals/provider-network-mirror-protocol/).
 
-## Authentication
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