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RFC 8478: Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 8878.

Current version: RFC 8878 — Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type

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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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Document ID
RFC8478
Published
October 2018
Authors
Y. Collet; M. Kucherawy
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
—
Pages
54
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 8878

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