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Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type
RFC 8878

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2021-03-09
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2021-02-26
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2021-02-09
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8878, changed title to 'Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type', changed abstract to 'Zstandard, …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8878, changed title to 'Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type', changed abstract to '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.', changed pages to 45, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-02-09, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-kucherawy-rfc8478bis and RFC 8478)
2021-02-09
(System) RFC published