| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 1982 | Serial Number ArithmeticR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1983 | Internet Users' GlossaryG. Malkin, Ed. | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1984 | IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the InternetIAB, IESG | Best Current Practice | August 1996 |
| 1985 | SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue StartingJ. De Winter | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1986 | Experiments with a Simple File Transfer Protocol for Radio Links using Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP)W. Polites, W. Wollman, D. Woo, R. Langan | Experimental | August 1996 |
| 1987 | Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1P. Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1988 | Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management FrameworkG. McAnally, D. Gilbert, J. Flick | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1989 | PPP Link Quality MonitoringW. Simpson | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 1990 | The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)K. Sklower, B. Lloyd, G. McGregor, D. Carr, T. Coradetti | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 1991 | PGP Message Exchange FormatsD. Atkins, W. Stallings, P. Zimmermann · obsoleted by RFC 4880 | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1992 | The Nimrod Routing ArchitectureI. Castineyra, N. Chiappa, M. Steenstrup | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1993 | PPP Gandalf FZA Compression ProtocolA. Barbir, D. Carr, W. Simpson | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1994 | PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)W. Simpson | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 1995 | Incremental Zone Transfer in DNSM. Ohta | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1996 | A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY)P. Vixie | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1997 | BGP Communities AttributeR. Chandra, P. Traina, T. Li | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 1998 | An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home RoutingE. Chen, T. Bates | Informational | August 1996 |
| 1999 | Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1900-1999J. Elliott | Informational | January 1997 |
| 2000 | Internet Official Protocol StandardsJ. Postel, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 2200 | Historic | February 1997 |
| 2001 | TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery AlgorithmsW. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 2581 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2002 | IP Mobility SupportC. Perkins, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 3220 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2004 | Minimal Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2005 | Applicability Statement for IP Mobility SupportJ. Solomon | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2006 | The Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Mobility Support using SMIv2D. Cong, M. Hamlen, C. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2007 | Catalogue of Network Training MaterialsJ. Foster, M. Isaacs, M. Prior | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2008 | Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet RoutingY. Rekhter, T. Li | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2009 | GPS-Based Addressing and RoutingT. Imielinski, J. Navas | Experimental | November 1996 |
| 2010 | Operational Criteria for Root Name ServersB. Manning, P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 2870 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2011 | SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol using SMIv2K. McCloghrie, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 4293 | Proposed Standard | November 1996 |
| 2012 | SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol using SMIv2K. McCloghrie, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 4022 | Proposed Standard | November 1996 |
| 2013 | SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the User Datagram Protocol using SMIv2K. McCloghrie, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 4113 | Proposed Standard | November 1996 |
| 2014 | IRTF Research Group Guidelines and ProceduresA. Weinrib, J. Postel | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2015 | MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)M. Elkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2016 | Uniform Resource Agents (URAs)L. Daigle, P. Deutsch, B. Heelan, C. Alpaugh, M. Maclachlan | Experimental | October 1996 |
| 2017 | Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-TypeN. Freed, K. Moore, A. Cargille | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2019 | Transmission of IPv6 Packets Over FDDIM. Crawford · obsoleted by RFC 2467 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2020 | IEEE 802.12 Interface MIBJ. Flick | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2021 | Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2S. Waldbusser · obsoleted by RFC 4502 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2022 | Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM NetworksG. Armitage | Proposed Standard | November 1996 |
| 2023 | IP Version 6 over PPPD. Haskin, E. Allen · obsoleted by RFC 2472 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2024 | Definitions of Managed Objects for Data Link Switching using SMIv2D. Chen, Ed., P. Gayek, S. Nix | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2025 | The Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM)C. Adams | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2027 | IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall CommitteesJ. Galvin · obsoleted by RFC 2282 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2028 | The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards ProcessR. Hovey, S. Bradner · obsoleted by RFC 9281 | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2029 | RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video EncodingM. Speer, D. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2030 | Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSID. Mills · obsoleted by RFC 4330 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2031 | IETF-ISOC relationshipE. Huizer · obsoleted by RFC 8712 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2032 | RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video StreamsT. Turletti, C. Huitema · obsoleted by RFC 4587 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2033 | Local Mail Transfer ProtocolJ. Myers | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2034 | SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error CodesN. Freed | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2035 | RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed VideoL. Berc, W. Fenner, R. Frederick, S. McCanne · obsoleted by RFC 2435 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2036 | Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the InternetG. Huston | Historic | October 1996 |
| 2037 | Entity MIB using SMIv2K. McCloghrie, A. Bierman · obsoleted by RFC 2737 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2038 | RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 VideoD. Hoffman, G. Fernando, V. Goyal · obsoleted by RFC 2250 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2039 | Applicability of Standards Track MIBs to Management of World Wide Web ServersC. Kalbfleisch | Informational | November 1996 |
| 2040 | The RC5, RC5-CBC, RC5-CBC-Pad, and RC5-CTS AlgorithmsR. Baldwin, R. Rivest | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2041 | Mobile Network TracingB. Noble, G. Nguyen, M. Satyanarayanan, R. Katz | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2042 | Registering New BGP Attribute TypesB. Manning | Informational | January 1997 |
| 2043 | The PPP SNA Control Protocol (SNACP)A. Fuqua | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2044 | UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646F. Yergeau · obsoleted by RFC 2279 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2047 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII TextK. Moore | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2048 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 4288, RFC 4289 | Best Current Practice | November 1996 |
| 2049 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and ExamplesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2050 | Internet Registry IP Allocation GuidelinesK. Hubbard, M. Kosters, D. Conrad, D. Karrenberg, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 7020 | Historic | November 1996 |
| 2051 | Definitions of Managed Objects for APPC using SMIv2M. Allen, B. Clouston, Z. Kielczewski, W. Kwan, B. Moore | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2052 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 2782 | Experimental | October 1996 |
| 2053 | The AM (Armenia) DomainE. Der-Danieliantz | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2054 | WebNFS Client SpecificationB. Callaghan | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2055 | WebNFS Server SpecificationB. Callaghan | Informational | October 1996 |
| 2056 | Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50R. Denenberg, J. Kunze, D. Lynch | Proposed Standard | November 1996 |
| 2057 | Source Directed Access Control on the InternetS. Bradner | Informational | November 1996 |
| 2058 | Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)C. Rigney, A. Rubens, W. Simpson, S. Willens · obsoleted by RFC 2138 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2059 | RADIUS AccountingC. Rigney · obsoleted by RFC 2139 | Informational | January 1997 |
| 2060 | Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1M. Crispin · obsoleted by RFC 3501 | Proposed Standard | December 1996 |
| 2061 | IMAP4 Compatibility with IMAP2bisM. Crispin | Informational | December 1996 |
| 2062 | Internet Message Access Protocol - Obsolete SyntaxM. Crispin | Informational | December 1996 |
| 2063 | Traffic Flow Measurement: ArchitectureN. Brownlee, C. Mills, G. Ruth · obsoleted by RFC 2722 | Experimental | January 1997 |
| 2064 | Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIBN. Brownlee · obsoleted by RFC 2720 | Experimental | January 1997 |
| 2065 | Domain Name System Security ExtensionsD. Eastlake 3rd, C. Kaufman · obsoleted by RFC 2535 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2066 | TELNET CHARSET OptionR. Gellens | Experimental | January 1997 |
| 2067 | IP over HIPPIJ. Renwick | Draft Standard | January 1997 |
| 2068 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee · obsoleted by RFC 2616 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2069 | An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access AuthenticationJ. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, E. Sink, L. Stewart · obsoleted by RFC 2617 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2070 | Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup LanguageF. Yergeau, G. Nicol, G. Adams, M. Duerst · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | January 1997 |
| 2071 | Network Renumbering Overview: Why would I want it and what is it anyway?P. Ferguson, H. Berkowitz | Informational | January 1997 |
| 2072 | Router Renumbering GuideH. Berkowitz | Informational | January 1997 |
| 2073 | An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address FormatY. Rekhter, P. Lothberg, R. Hinden, S. Deering, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2374 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2074 | Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol IdentifiersA. Bierman, R. Iddon · obsoleted by RFC 2895 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2075 | IP Echo Host ServiceC. Partridge | Experimental | January 1997 |
| 2076 | Common Internet Message HeadersJ. Palme | Informational | February 1997 |
| 2077 | The Model Primary Content Type for Multipurpose Internet Mail ExtensionsS. Nelson, C. Parks, Mitra | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2078 | Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2J. Linn · obsoleted by RFC 2743 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2079 | Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)M. Smith | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |