diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e8c42d88a..eaac15c2c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ provides a Python API (the ``neutronclient`` module).
 .. note:: This project has been deprecated. The CLI code has been deleted
    and is not accessible anymore. The Python bindings are still in use by
    other projects but no new features will be added to this project.
+   All projects under Openstack governance migrating to use OpenstackSDK.
    Any new feature should be proposed to OpenStack SDK and OpenStack
    Client.
 
diff --git a/neutronclient/v2_0/client.py b/neutronclient/v2_0/client.py
index de0529182..9922eb31c 100644
--- a/neutronclient/v2_0/client.py
+++ b/neutronclient/v2_0/client.py
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ class ClientBase(object):
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         """Initialize a new client for the Neutron v2.0 API."""
         super(ClientBase, self).__init__()
+        _logger.warning("The python binding code in neutronclient is "
+                        "deprecated in favor of OpenstackSDK, please use "
+                        "that as this will be removed in a future release.")
         self.retries = kwargs.pop('retries', 0)
         self.raise_errors = kwargs.pop('raise_errors', True)
         self.httpclient = client.construct_http_client(**kwargs)