diff --git a/rfcs/0107-version-normalization.md b/rfcs/0107-version-normalization.md
index b4d64c5f4..0d27b369d 100644
--- a/rfcs/0107-version-normalization.md
+++ b/rfcs/0107-version-normalization.md
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ them.
   - `version` should be constituted of the version of the snapshot, as defined
     by the upstream project, without any alphabetical characters (e.g. "v",
     "rel") prepending it.
-    - Alphabetical characters after the first should be maintained, except
-      optionally those clearly used as separators, in which case they are
-      replaced by dots (emulating a typical semver).
+    - Alphabetical characters following the first digit should be maintained,
+      except optionally those clearly used as separators, in which case they are
+      replaced by dots (emulating a typical dot-separated version).
 
 - For an unlabeled snapshot:
   - `version` should be constituted of a concatenation of the elements below in