{"draft":"draft-kucherawy-rfc8478bis-06","doc_id":"RFC8878","title":"Zstandard Compression and the 'application\/zstd' Media Type","authors":["Y. Collet","M. Kucherawy, Ed."],"format":["HTML","TEXT","PDF","XML"],"page_count":"45","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"Zstandard, or \"zstd\" (pronounced \"zee standard\"), is a lossless data\r\ncompression mechanism.  This document describes the mechanism and\r\nregisters a media type, content encoding, and a structured syntax\r\nsuffix to be used when transporting zstd-compressed content via MIME.\r\n\r\nDespite use of the word \"standard\" as part of Zstandard, readers are\r\nadvised that this document is not an Internet Standards Track\r\nspecification; it is being published for informational purposes only.\r\n\r\nThis document replaces and obsoletes RFC 8478.","pub_date":"February 2021","keywords":["compression"],"obsoletes":["RFC8478"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8878","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8878"}