6. IANA Considerations

6. IANA Considerations

The Internet media type for a JSON Patch document is application/json-patch+json.

Type name: application

Subtype name: json-patch+json

Required parameters: none

Optional parameters: none

Encoding considerations: binary

Security considerations: See Security Considerations in Section 7.

Interoperability considerations: N/A

Published specification: RFC 6902

Applications that use this media type: Applications that manipulate JSON documents.

Additional information:

• Magic number(s): N/A
• File extension(s): .json-patch
• Macintosh file type code(s): TEXT

Person & email address to contact for further information: Paul C. Bryan <[email protected]>

Intended usage: COMMON

Restrictions on usage: none

Author: Paul C. Bryan <[email protected]>

Change controller: IETF