The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Zstandard Compression and The application/zstd Media Type' (draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd-03.txt) as Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd/ Technical Summary 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), as well as a new HTTP Content Coding. Working Group Summary This is not a product of an IETF WG. Document Quality There are multiple implementations of "zstd" compression algorithm, see <http://facebook.github.io/zstd/> See also Section 5 of the draft. Personnel Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director.
