RFC 8878 · INFORMATIONAL · 2021

Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type

Overview

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.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

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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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 8478
Updated by
RFC 9659
Other RFCs from 2021

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