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@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ Annotations MUST NOT be present.
 Placeholders MUST NOT be used.
 Where possible, fixed-length ("format A") MUST be used in preference
 to variable-length ("format B") formats.
-Lengths in variable-length encodings (base 128 varints) MUST be as
-short as possible.
 
 **Signed integers.**
 When a `SignedInteger` *n* is greater than or equal to -3 and less