RFC 8878: Zstandard Compression and the 'application/zstd' Media Type

Zstandard, or "zstd" (pronounced "zee standard"), is a lossless data compression mechanism. This document describes the mechanism and registers a media type,…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 8478: Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type
Informative reference — RFC 1952: GZIP file format specification version 4.3

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 9659: Window Sizing for Zstandard Content Encoding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9842: Compression Dictionary Transport