diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
index 8a5d1e95e7..0743be313d 100644
--- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ $Id$
    Every router descriptor MUST start with a "router" Item; MUST end with a
    "router-signature" Item and an extra NL; and MUST contain exactly one
    instance of each of the following Items: "published" "onion-key"
-   "link-key" "signing-key" "bandwidth". 
+   "signing-key" "bandwidth". 
 
    A router descriptor MAY have zero or one of each of the following Items,
    but MUST NOT have more than one: "contact", "uptime", "fingerprint",