RFC 8478 on Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type

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        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.


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