diff --git a/profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask b/profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask
index 9fecd253f4bd8..a864a63e880ba 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/ia64/package.use.mask
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ media-video/ffmpeg snappy
 # no ia64 support in media-libs/glfw
 app-text/mupdf opengl
 
-# Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (22 Dec 2015)
-# Needs keywording. #569254
-net-firewall/iptables nftables
-
 # Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> (18 Nov 2015)
 # requires dev-python/restkit which requires
 # dev-python/socketpool which requires dev-python/gevent which requires