The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Zstandard Compression and The application/zstd Media Type' <draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd-01.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2018-04-23. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Zstandard, or "zstd" (pronounced "zee standard"), is a data compression mechanism. This document describes the mechanism, and registers a media type to be used when transporting zstd-compressed via Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.