diff --git a/csaf_2.1/prose/edit/src/guidance-on-size.md b/csaf_2.1/prose/edit/src/guidance-on-size.md
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--- a/csaf_2.1/prose/edit/src/guidance-on-size.md
+++ b/csaf_2.1/prose/edit/src/guidance-on-size.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ All _CSAF producers_ SHOULD NOT produce CSAF documents which exceed those limits
 A CSAF document in the specified JSON format encoded in UTF-8 SHOULD conform to known size limits of current technologies parsing JSON content,
 e.g.: 50 MiB.
 
+> The CSAF documents observed in the wild expose strongly varying sizes as per the use cases they serve.
 > At least one database technology in wide use for storing CSAF documents rejects insert attempts when
 > the transformed BSON size exceeds 16 megabytes.
 > The BSON format optimizes for accessibility and not size.