RFC 9996: Media Types for Protocol Buffers

This document registers media types for Protocol Buffers, a common extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Normative reference — RFC 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Normative reference — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normative reference — RFC 8259: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
Normative reference — RFC 6839: Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes
Informative reference — RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Informative reference — RFC 9839: Unicode Character Repertoire Subsets
Informative reference — RFC 8264: PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 9205: Building Protocols with HTTP