| 8551 | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 4.0 Message SpecificationJ. Schaad, B. Ramsdell, S. Turner | Proposed Standard | April 2019 |
| 5218 | What Makes for a Successful Protocol?D. Thaler, B. Aboba | Informational | July 2008 |
| 3117 | On the Design of Application ProtocolsM. Rose | Informational | November 2001 |
| 2924 | Accounting Attributes and Record FormatsN. Brownlee, A. Blount | Informational | September 2000 |
| 2854 | The 'text/html' Media TypeD. Connolly, L. Masinter | Informational | June 2000 |
| 2828 | Internet Security GlossaryR. Shirey · obsoleted by RFC 4949 | Informational | May 2000 |
| 2806 | URLs for Telephone CallsA. Vaha-Sipila · obsoleted by RFC 3966 | Proposed Standard | April 2000 |
| 2801 | Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0D. Burdett | Informational | April 2000 |
| 2646 | The Text/Plain Format ParameterR. Gellens, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 3676 | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2626 | The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000)P. Nesser II | Informational | June 1999 |
| 2616 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee · obsoleted by RFC 7230, RFC 7231, RFC 7232, RFC 7233, RFC 7234, RFC 7235 | Draft Standard | June 1999 |
| 2557 | MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2552 | Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project GAIAM. Blinov, M. Bessonov, C. Clissmann | Informational | April 1999 |
| 2397 | The "data" URL schemeL. Masinter | Proposed Standard | August 1998 |
| 2396 | Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 3986 | Draft Standard | August 1998 |
| 2291 | Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide WebJ. Slein, F. Vitali, E. Whitehead, D. Durand | Informational | February 1998 |
| 2165 | Service Location ProtocolJ. Veizades, E. Guttman, C. Perkins, S. Kaplan | Proposed Standard | June 1997 |
| 2151 | A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and UtilitiesG. Kessler, S. Shepard | Informational | June 1997 |
| 2150 | Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the InternetJ. Max, W. Stickle | Informational | October 1997 |
| 2130 | The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996C. Weider, C. Preston, K. Simonsen, H. Alvestrand, R. Atkinson, M. Crispin, P. Svanberg | Informational | April 1997 |
| 2122 | VEMMI URL SpecificationD. Mavrakis, H. Layec, K. Kartmann | Proposed Standard | March 1997 |
| 2110 | MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)J. Palme, A. Hopmann · obsoleted by RFC 2557 | Proposed Standard | March 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 |
| 2070 | Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup LanguageF. Yergeau, G. Nicol, G. Adams, M. Duerst · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | 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 |
| 1999 | Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1900-1999J. Elliott | Informational | January 1997 |
| 1980 | A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image MapsJ. Seidman · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | August 1996 |
| 1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1942 | HTML TablesD. Raggett · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | May 1996 |
| 1922 | Chinese Character Encoding for Internet MessagesHF. Zhu, DY. Hu, ZG. Wang, TC. Kao, WCH. Chang, M. Crispin | Informational | March 1996 |
| 1896 | The text/enriched MIME Content-typeP. Resnick, A. Walker | Informational | February 1996 |