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RFC 9996: Media Types for Protocol Buffers

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

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RFC9996
Published
July 2026
Authors
M. Kucherawy; W. Kumari; R. Sloan
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
art
Pages
14
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