Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type
RFC 8478

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to '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.')

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8478, changed title to 'Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type', changed abstract to '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).', changed pages to 54, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2018-10-02, changed IESG state to RFC Published)