{"draft":"draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd-03","doc_id":"RFC8478","title":"Zstandard Compression and the application\/zstd Media Type","authors":["Y. Collet","M. Kucherawy, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"54","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"Zstandard, or \"zstd\" (pronounced \"zee standard\"), is a data\r\ncompression mechanism.  This document describes the mechanism and\r\nregisters a media type and content encoding to be used when\r\ntransporting zstd-compressed content via Multipurpose Internet Mail\r\nExtensions (MIME).\r\n\r\nDespite use of the word \"standard\" as part of its name, readers are\r\nadvised that this document is not an Internet Standards Track\r\nspecification; it is being published for informational purposes only.","pub_date":"October 2018","keywords":["Compression"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":["RFC8878"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8478","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8478"}