rfc-8878

Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type

Y. Collet, M. Kucherawy (Editor)
date2021-02 streamIETF wgnon working group statusINFORMATIONAL pages45 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8878 doi10.17487/RFC8878 errataview
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.

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