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RFC 8478
Title: Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd
Media Type
Author: Y. Collet,
M. Kucherawy, Ed.
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2018
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 54
Characters: 107180
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd-03.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8478
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8478
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.
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