diff --git a/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md b/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md
index ee6e667ba..54dd049a4 100644
--- a/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md
+++ b/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ If it helps, you can think of relations as a "subject verb object" triple,
 where the subject is the relation event itself; the verb is the `rel_type`
 field of the `m.relates_to` and the object is the `event_id` field.
 
+These do not yet replace the 
+[reply mechanism currently defined in the spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/latest#rich-replies).
+
 We consciously do not support multiple different relations within a single event,
 in order to keep the API simple. Another MSC,
 like [MSC 3051](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3051),