From bab87d954eded80b96f38ba9f38c4d3a32fd15d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clayton Coleman Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:55:17 -0500 Subject: Clarify name must be lowercase in docs, to match code We restrict DNS_SUBDOMAIN to lowercase for sanity. --- identifiers.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/identifiers.md b/identifiers.md index 1c0660c6..260c237a 100644 --- a/identifiers.md +++ b/identifiers.md @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ Name : A non-empty string guaranteed to be unique within a given scope at a particular time; used in resource URLs; provided by clients at creation time and encouraged to be human friendly; intended to facilitate creation idempotence and space-uniqueness of singleton objects, distinguish distinct entities, and reference particular entities across operations. [rfc1035](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt)/[rfc1123](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt) label (DNS_LABEL) -: An alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z, and 0-9) string, with a maximum length of 63 characters, with the '-' character allowed anywhere except the first or last character, suitable for use as a hostname or segment in a domain name +: An alphanumeric (a-z, and 0-9) string, with a maximum length of 63 characters, with the '-' character allowed anywhere except the first or last character, suitable for use as a hostname or segment in a domain name [rfc1035](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt)/[rfc1123](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt) subdomain (DNS_SUBDOMAIN) -: One or more rfc1035/rfc1123 labels separated by '.' with a maximum length of 253 characters +: One or more lowercase rfc1035/rfc1123 labels separated by '.' with a maximum length of 253 characters [rfc4122](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt) universally unique identifier (UUID) : A 128 bit generated value that is extremely unlikely to collide across time and space and requires no central coordination -- cgit v1.2.3