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A122: zstd message compression

gRFC for a first-class, cross-language zstd message codec (grpc-encoding: zstd). Per-message RFC 8878 frames. No dictionaries, skippable frames, or concatenated frames in the gRPC profile.

Blocked grpc/grpc#26460 and grpc/grpc#41813 pending this design.

Summary

  • Wire name zstd (IANA / RFC 8878); magic 0xFD2FB528; Dictionary_ID 0
  • Per-call grpc-encoding, per-message Compressed-Flag (existing model)
  • Encode opt-in; decode+advertise once non-experimental
  • C-core GRPC_COMPRESS_ZSTD; Python Compression.Zstd; Java optional artifact; Go encoding/zstd
  • C-core env var GRPC_EXPERIMENTAL_ZSTD_COMPRESSION; Java/Go use artifact/import as the flag
  • Not in scope: Brotli, Snappy, full-stream compression, C-core BYO compressor API, level remapping

C-core, Java, and Go language owners should review.

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Superseded by #562. Closed to drop previous force-push revisions from history.

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