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IANA Considerations

The MIME media type for JSON text is application/json.

Type name: application

Subtype name: json

Required parameters: n/a

Optional parameters: n/a

Security considerations: See [RFC7159], Section 12.

Interoperability considerations: Described in [RFC7159]

Published specification: [RFC7159]

Applications that use this media type:

JSON has been used to exchange data between applications written in all of these programming languages: ActionScript, C, C#, Clojure, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, E, Erlang, Go, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Objective CAML, Perl, PHP, Python, Rebol, Ruby, Scala, and Scheme.

Additional information:

  • Magic number(s): n/a
  • File extension(s): .json
  • Macintosh file type code(s): TEXT

Person & email address to contact for further information:

IESG
[email protected]

Intended usage: COMMON

Restrictions on usage: none

Author:

Douglas Crockford
[email protected]

Change controller:

IESG
[email protected]

Note: No "charset" parameter is defined for this registration. Adding one really has no effect on compliant recipients.