diff --git a/docs/decisions/016-mesh-vpn.md b/docs/decisions/016-mesh-vpn.md
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@@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ allocated for it.
 - **Bootstrap order:** stand up the coordinator on `askari` → enroll `ubongo` →
   `base` enrolls the fleet.
 - **Coordinator survival:** off-site on `askari` ⇒ mesh survives a homelab outage.
-  NetBird's management datastore is backed up encrypted off `askari` (synced to
-  `ubongo`/`mamba`); peers keep last-known config through a brief coordinator outage.
+  NetBird's management datastore is **intended** to be backed up encrypted off `askari`
+  (synced to `ubongo`/`mamba`; not yet built — see the Availability amendment / R8); peers
+  keep last-known config through a brief coordinator outage.
 - **`askari` is Ansible-managed:** its own inventory group `offsite_hosts` — provisioned
   as **Terraform IaC** (`hetznercloud/hcloud`), managed independently of the Proxmox
   cluster (its own provider + local state). Ansible configuration: `base` role, plus a