Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type
RFC 8878, “Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type”, is an Informational document published in February 2021 by Y. Collet, M. Kucherawy. It obsoletes RFC 8478. It has since been updated by RFC 9659. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Zstandard, or "zstd" (pronounced "zee standard"), is a lossless data compression mechanism. This document describes the mechanism and registers a media type, content encoding, and a structured syntax suffix to be used when transporting zstd-compressed content via MIME.
Despite use of the word "standard" as part of Zstandard, readers are advised that this document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is being published for informational purposes only.
This document replaces and obsoletes RFC 8478.
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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