Technical Summary
JSON Patch defines the media type "application/json-patch", a JSON
document structure for expressing a sequence of operations to apply
to a JSON document.
Working Group Summary
This draft and its companion (draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer) received
commentary from a number of participants. The original author
was unable to complete the work so the current editor stepped in.
There was no controversy of import, and the subset of Applications Area
participants who have reviewed and commented on this document is
large enough and the reviews are broad enough that we have good
consensus on this.
Document Quality
Many of the participants who contributed review comments are well
established in the IETF and W3C communities. The review and
participation was thorough and contained adequate (if not better)
expertise on the relevant topics.
Implementations are being tracked at
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki/JsonPatch.
Personnel
Murray Kucherawy is the Document Shepherd.
Barry Leiba is the responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
Please change all instances of "application/json-patch" to
"application/json-patch+json", and also change "Subtype name: json-patch"
to "Subtype name: json-patch+json".
IANA Note
This document registers a new media type using the template found in
Section 10 of RFC4288. RFC4288 is about to be replaced by
draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs, which is in the RFC Editor queue.
The registration template is slightly different in the new version. We ask
IANA to handle this situation during the transition. Note that the name
is being changed to "application/json-patch+json".