There has been confusion during bip85 app proposals which entropy source to use, lets make their choice explicit in the standard.
What: An application that could need more than the 64 bytes of HMAC-SHA512 output for any of its derivation paths MUST use BIP85-DRNG for all of its derivation paths. All other applications MUST use the HMAC-SHA512 output directly.
How: Two sentences after the paragraph that introduces the HMAC output, a one-line rationale footnote, the version bump and a changelog entry.
Why: This is the per-application rule akarve proposed on #2295 (Sep 19 and Oct 12, 2026). Every existing application already follows it: RSA and DICE use BIP85-DRNG, and BIP39, HD-Seed WIF, XPRV, HEX, PWD BASE64, PWD BASE85 and Nostr never read more than the 64 bytes. No output changes. A new MUST is a backward-compatible change to the specification, so this is a MINOR bump to 2.2.0 per BIP 3.