Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type
RFC 8478, “Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type”, is an Informational document published in October 2018 by Y. Collet, M. Kucherawy. It has been obsoleted by RFC 8878 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Zstandard, or "zstd" (pronounced "zee standard"), is a data compression mechanism. This document describes the mechanism and registers a media type and content encoding to be used when transporting zstd-compressed content via Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).
Despite use of the word "standard" as part of its name, readers are advised that this document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is being published for informational purposes only.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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