We have some hints in https://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/#intro, but it's not complete, and it needs to appear in the local explainer, not something remote.
Other considerations against zip:
We should probably also list reasons in favor of re-using zip so that proponents know we've considered their arguments:
- A huge number of other formats are based on zip, so we're unlikely to run into something we can't express.
- Existing tools would be able to extract packages.
We have some hints in https://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/#intro, but it's not complete, and it needs to appear in the local explainer, not something remote.
Other considerations against zip:
We should probably also list reasons in favor of re-using zip so that proponents know we've considered their arguments: