| 1037 | NFILE - a file access protocolB. Greenberg, S. Keene | Historic | December 1987 |
| 1036 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton, R. Adams · obsoleted by RFC 5536, RFC 5537 | Unknown | December 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1033 | Domain Administrators Operations GuideM. Lottor | Unknown | November 1987 |
| 1032 | Domain administrators guideM.K. Stahl | Unknown | November 1987 |
| 1031 | MILNET name domain transitionW.D. Lazear | Unknown | November 1987 |
| 1030 | On testing the NETBLT Protocol over divers networksM.L. Lambert | Unknown | November 1987 |
| 1028 | Simple Gateway Monitoring ProtocolJ. Davin, J.D. Case, M. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall | Historic | November 1987 |
| 1020 | Internet numbersS. Romano, M.K. Stahl · obsoleted by RFC 1062, RFC 1117, RFC 1166 | Unknown | November 1987 |
| 1027 | Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gatewaysS. Carl-Mitchell, J.S. Quarterman | Unknown | October 1987 |
| 1024 | HEMS variable definitionsC. Partridge, G. Trewitt | Unknown | October 1987 |
| 1023 | HEMS monitoring and control languageG. Trewitt, C. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 1076 | Unknown | October 1987 |
| 1022 | High-level Entity Management Protocol (HEMP)C. Partridge, G. Trewitt | Unknown | October 1987 |
| 1021 | High-level Entity Management System (HEMS)C. Partridge, G. Trewitt | Historic | October 1987 |
| 1026 | Addendum to RFC 987: (Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822)S.E. Kille · obsoleted by RFC 1327, RFC 2156 | Unknown | September 1987 |
| 1025 | TCP and IP bake offJ. Postel | Unknown | September 1987 |
| 1019 | Report of the Workshop on Environments for Computational MathematicsD. Arnon | Unknown | September 1987 |
| 1018 | Some comments on SQuIDA.M. McKenzie | Unknown | August 1987 |
| 1017 | Network requirements for scientific research: Internet task force on scientific computingB.M. Leiner | Unknown | August 1987 |
| 1000 | Request For Comments reference guideJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Unknown | August 1987 |
| 1016 | Something a Host Could Do with Source Quench: The Source Quench Introduced Delay (SQuID)W. Prue, J. Postel | Unknown | July 1987 |
| 1015 | Implementation plan for interagency research InternetB.M. Leiner | Unknown | July 1987 |
| 1014 | XDR: External Data Representation standardSun Microsystems | Unknown | June 1987 |
| 1013 | X Window System Protocol, version 11: Alpha update April 1987R.W. Scheifler | Unknown | June 1987 |
| 1012 | Bibliography of Request For Comments 1 through 999J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Informational | June 1987 |
| 1009 | Requirements for Internet gatewaysR.T. Braden, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1812 | Historic | June 1987 |
| 1008 | Implementation guide for the ISO Transport ProtocolW. McCoy | Unknown | June 1987 |
| 1007 | Military supplement to the ISO Transport ProtocolW. McCoy | Unknown | June 1987 |
| 1011 | Official Internet protocolsJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Unknown | May 1987 |
| 1010 | Assigned numbersJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1060 | Historic | May 1987 |
| 1006 | ISO Transport Service on top of the TCP Version: 3M.T. Rose, D.E. Cass | Internet Standard | May 1987 |
| 1005 | ARPANET AHIP-E Host Access Protocol (enhanced AHIP)A. Khanna, A.G. Malis | Unknown | May 1987 |
| 1004 | Distributed-protocol authentication schemeD.L. Mills | Experimental | April 1987 |
| 999 | Requests For Comments summary notes: 900-999A. Westine, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1000 | Unknown | April 1987 |
| 1003 | Issues in defining an equations representation standardA.R. Katz | Unknown | March 1987 |
| 1002 | Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Detailed specificationsNetBIOS Working Group in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board, End-to-End Services Task Force | Internet Standard | March 1987 |
| 1001 | Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Concepts and methodsNetBIOS Working Group in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board, End-to-End Services Task Force | Internet Standard | March 1987 |
| 998 | NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocolD.D. Clark, M.L. Lambert, L. Zhang | Experimental | March 1987 |
| 997 | Internet numbersJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1020, RFC 1117 | Unknown | March 1987 |
| 996 | Statistics serverD.L. Mills | Historic | February 1987 |
| 989 | Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail: Part I: Message encipherment and authentication proceduresJ. Linn · obsoleted by RFC 1040, RFC 1113 | Unknown | February 1987 |