| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 791 | Internet 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 |
| 854 | Telnet Protocol SpecificationJ. Postel, J.K. Reynolds | Internet Standard | May 1983 |
| 903 | A Reverse Address Resolution ProtocolR. Finlayson, T. Mann, J.C. Mogul, M. Theimer | Internet Standard | June 1984 |
| 904 | Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specificationD.L. Mills | Historic | April 1984 |
| 977 | Network News Transfer ProtocolB. Kantor, P. Lapsley · obsoleted by RFC 3977 | Proposed Standard | February 1986 |
| 1055 | Nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams over serial lines: SLIPJ.L. Romkey | Internet Standard | June 1988 |
| 1058 | Routing Information ProtocolC.L. Hedrick | Historic | June 1988 |
| 1094 | NFS: Network File System Protocol specificationB. Nowicki | Informational | March 1989 |
| 1155 | Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internetsM.T. Rose, K. McCloghrie | Internet Standard | May 1990 |
| 1157 | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)J.D. Case, M. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall, J. Davin | Historic | May 1990 |
| 1208 | A Glossary of Networking TermsO.J. Jacobsen, D.C. Lynch | Informational | March 1991 |
| 1288 | The Finger User Information ProtocolD. Zimmerman | Draft Standard | December 1991 |
| 1319 | The MD2 Message-Digest AlgorithmB. Kaliski · obsoleted by RFC 6149 | Historic | April 1992 |
| 1320 | The MD4 Message-Digest AlgorithmR. Rivest · obsoleted by RFC 6150 | Historic | April 1992 |
| 1321 | The MD5 Message-Digest AlgorithmR. Rivest | Informational | April 1992 |
| 1325 | FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" QuestionsG. Malkin, A. Marine · obsoleted by RFC 1594 | Informational | May 1992 |
| 1393 | Traceroute Using an IP OptionG. Malkin · obsoleted by RFC 6814 | Historic | January 1993 |
| 1436 | The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)F. Anklesaria, M. McCahill, P. Lindner, D. Johnson, D. Torrey, B. Alberti | Informational | March 1993 |
| 1519 | Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation StrategyV. Fuller, T. Li, J. Yu, K. Varadhan · obsoleted by RFC 4632 | Proposed Standard | September 1993 |
| 1542 | Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap ProtocolW. Wimer | Draft Standard | October 1993 |
| 1584 | Multicast Extensions to OSPFJ. Moy | Historic | March 1994 |
| 1661 | The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)W. Simpson, Ed. | Internet Standard | July 1994 |
| 1700 | Assigned NumbersJ. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 3232 | Historic | October 1994 |
| 1725 | Post Office Protocol - Version 3J. Myers, M. Rose · obsoleted by RFC 1939 | Internet Standard | November 1994 |
| 1738 | Uniform Resource Locators (URL)T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill · obsoleted by RFC 4248, RFC 4266 | Proposed Standard | December 1994 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1813 | NFS Version 3 Protocol SpecificationB. Callaghan, B. Pawlowski, P. Staubach | Informational | June 1995 |
| 1855 | Netiquette GuidelinesS. Hambridge | Informational | October 1995 |
| 1920 | Internet Official Protocol StandardsJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2000 | Historic | March 1996 |