The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'JSON Patch' <draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-08.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2012-12-25. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract 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, suitable for use with the HTTP PATCH method. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.