Yes, both of these signatures are either a low or informational severity, which by default will be getting retired. Agreed that it *could* be useful in *some* cases - but it will all depend on where you placed the IPS, what kind and how much traffic it's seeing... are the thresholds set on the signatures to low or too high, maybe they're just right - but that all depends on your specific situation.
We aren't deleting the signature, it's still there, and if you need or want it, you can activate it. But to get value of of that signature, you will ned to understand your network and traffic patterns and flows, then tune the signature to appropriate thresholds so that it's providing actual value to you.
A whitepaper and video blog post (basically the same material as the whitepaper) have recently been made available to provide more detail to what the default configuration will look like, and how we're making retirement decisions.
It is located in the Documentation and Training tab under “White Papers”
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/ipshome.x?i=62#~DocumentationTraining
The video link is included in the whitepaper as well.
The direct link to the video is http://blogs.cisco.com/security/cisco-ips-signature-retirement-and-the-default-configuration .
The direct link to the WP is as follows: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/01_30_IPS-SigRet.html
