diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names.md
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--- a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names.md
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@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ This means the name must:
 - start with an alphabetic character
 - end with an alphanumeric character
 
+The only difference between the RFC 1035 and RFC 1123
+label standards is that RFC 1123 labels are allowed to
+start with a digit, whereas RFC 1035 labels can start
+with a lowercase alphabetic character only.
+
 ### Path Segment Names
 
 Some resource types require their names to be able to be safely encoded as a