A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 8478 Title: Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type Author: Y. Collet, M. Kucherawy, Ed. Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: October 2018 Mailbox: cyan@fb.com, msk@fb.com Pages: 54 Characters: 107180 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-kucherawy-dispatch-zstd-03.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8478 DOI: 10.17487/RFC8478 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. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/retrieve/bulk Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC