| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 792 | Internet Control Message ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 821 | Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 822 | STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESD. Crocker · obsoleted by RFC 2822 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 823 | DARPA Internet gatewayR.M. Hinden, A. Sheltzer | Historic | September 1982 |
| 826 | An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet HardwareD. Plummer | Internet Standard | November 1982 |
| 854 | Telnet Protocol SpecificationJ. Postel, J.K. Reynolds | Internet Standard | May 1983 |
| 862 | Echo ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | May 1983 |
| 891 | DCN Local-Network ProtocolsD.L. Mills | Internet Standard | December 1983 |
| 894 | A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet NetworksC. Hornig | Internet Standard | April 1984 |
| 904 | Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specificationD.L. Mills | Historic | April 1984 |
| 919 | Broadcasting Internet DatagramsJ.C. Mogul | Internet Standard | October 1984 |
| 922 | Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence of subnetsJ.C. Mogul | Internet Standard | October 1984 |
| 937 | Post Office Protocol: Version 2M. Butler, J. Postel, D. Chase, J. Goldberger, J.K. Reynolds | Historic | February 1985 |
| 950 | Internet Standard Subnetting ProcedureJ.C. Mogul, J. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1985 |
| 951 | Bootstrap ProtocolW.J. Croft, J. Gilmore | Draft Standard | September 1985 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 966 | Host groups: A multicast extension to the Internet ProtocolS.E. Deering, D.R. Cheriton · obsoleted by RFC 988 | Unknown | December 1985 |
| 974 | Mail routing and the domain systemC. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Historic | January 1986 |
| 1000 | Request For Comments reference guideJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Unknown | August 1987 |
| 1009 | Requirements for Internet gatewaysR.T. Braden, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1812 | Historic | June 1987 |
| 1010 | Assigned numbersJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 1060 | Historic | May 1987 |
| 1011 | Official Internet protocolsJ.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Unknown | May 1987 |
| 1012 | Bibliography of Request For Comments 1 through 999J.K. Reynolds, J. Postel | Informational | June 1987 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1042 | Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over IEEE 802 networksJ. Postel, J.K. Reynolds | Internet Standard | February 1988 |
| 1048 | BOOTP vendor information extensionsP.A. Prindeville · obsoleted by RFC 1084, RFC 1395, RFC 1497, RFC 1533 | Unknown | February 1988 |
| 1058 | Routing Information ProtocolC.L. Hedrick | Historic | June 1988 |
| 1059 | Network Time Protocol (version 1) specification and implementationD.L. Mills · obsoleted by RFC 1119, RFC 1305 | Unknown | July 1988 |
| 1065 | Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internetsK. McCloghrie, M.T. Rose · obsoleted by RFC 1155 | Internet Standard | August 1988 |
| 1066 | Management Information Base for network management of TCP/IP-based internetsK. McCloghrie, M.T. Rose · obsoleted by RFC 1156 | Unknown | August 1988 |
| 1074 | NSFNET backbone SPF based Interior Gateway ProtocolJ. Rekhter | Unknown | October 1988 |
| 1084 | BOOTP vendor information extensionsJ.K. Reynolds · obsoleted by RFC 1395, RFC 1497, RFC 1533 | Unknown | December 1988 |
| 1087 | Ethics and the InternetDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board | Unknown | January 1989 |
| 1095 | Common Management Information Services and Protocol over TCP/IP (CMOT)U.S. Warrier, L. Besaw · obsoleted by RFC 1189 | Unknown | April 1989 |
| 1098 | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)J.D. Case, M. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall, J. Davin · obsoleted by RFC 1157 | Unknown | April 1989 |
| 1100 | IAB official protocol standardsDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Internet Activities Board · obsoleted by RFC 1130 | Historic | April 1989 |
| 1101 | DNS encoding of network names and other typesP. Mockapetris | Unknown | April 1989 |
| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 1117 | Internet numbersS. Romano, M.K. Stahl, M. Recker · obsoleted by RFC 1166 | Informational | August 1989 |