Type name: application

Subtype name: yaml

Required parameters: N/A

Optional parameters: N/A; unrecognized parameters should be ignored.

Encoding considerations: binary

Security considerations: See Section 4 of RFC 9512.

Interoperability considerations: See Section 3 of RFC 9512.

Published specification: [YAML], [RFC9512]

Applications that use this media type: Applications that need a
   human-friendly, cross-language, and Unicode-based data
   serialization language designed around the common data types of
   dynamic programming languages.

Fragment identifier considerations: See Section 1.2 of RFC 9512.

Additional information:

   Deprecated alias names for this type: application/x-yaml, text/
      yaml, and text/x-yaml.  These names are used but are not
      registered.

   Magic number(s): N/A

   File extension(s): "yaml" (preferred) and "yml". See Section 3.3
      of RFC 9512.

   Macintosh file type code(s): N/A
   
   Windows Clipboard Name: YAML

Person and email address to contact for further information: See
   Authors' Addresses section of RFC 9512.

Intended usage: COMMON

Restrictions on usage: None

Author: See Authors' Addresses section of RFC 9512.

Change controller: IETF

Normative References:

[YAML]
      Ben-Kiki, O., Evans, C., dot Net, I., Müller, T.,
      Antoniou, P., Aro, E., and T. Smith, "YAML Ain't Markup
      Language Version 1.2", 1 October 2021,
      <https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/>.