| 790 | Assigned numbersJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 820 | Historic | September 1981 |
| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 1380 | IESG Deliberations on Routing and AddressingP. Gross, P. Almquist | Informational | November 1992 |
| 1466 | Guidelines for Management of IP Address SpaceE. Gerich · obsoleted by RFC 2050 | Informational | May 1993 |
| 1498 | On the Naming and Binding of Network DestinationsJ. Saltzer | Informational | August 1993 |
| 1518 | An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDRY. Rekhter, T. Li | Historic | September 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 |
| 1541 | Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolR. Droms · obsoleted by RFC 2131 | Proposed Standard | October 1993 |
| 1631 | The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)K. Egevang, P. Francis · obsoleted by RFC 3022 | Informational | May 1994 |
| 1661 | The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)W. Simpson, Ed. | Internet Standard | July 1994 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1772 | Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the InternetY. Rekhter, P. Gross | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1817 | CIDR and Classful RoutingY. Rekhter | Historic | August 1995 |
| 1825 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolR. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 2401 | Proposed Standard | August 1995 |
| 1884 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, Ed., S. Deering, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 2373 | Historic | December 1995 |
| 1900 | Renumbering Needs WorkB. Carpenter, Y. Rekhter | Informational | February 1996 |
| 1918 | Address Allocation for Private InternetsY. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear | Best Current Practice | February 1996 |
| 1933 | Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and RoutersR. Gilligan, E. Nordmark · obsoleted by RFC 2893 | Proposed Standard | April 1996 |
| 2008 | Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet RoutingY. Rekhter, T. Li | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2065 | Domain Name System Security ExtensionsD. Eastlake 3rd, C. Kaufman · obsoleted by RFC 2535 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |