File formats:

Also available: XML file for editing

 

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoletes:

RFC 8478

Updated by:

RFC 9659

Authors:

Y. Collet
M. Kucherawy, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8878

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Abstract

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.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.