| 1 | Host SoftwareS. Crocker | Unknown | April 1969 |
| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 792 | Internet Control Message ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 854 | Telnet Protocol SpecificationJ. Postel, J.K. Reynolds | Internet Standard | May 1983 |
| 954 | NICNAME/WHOISK. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler · obsoleted by RFC 3912 | Draft Standard | October 1985 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 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 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 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 |
| 1150 | FYI on FYI: Introduction to the FYI NotesG.S. Malkin, J.K. Reynolds · obsoleted by RFC 6360 | Historic | March 1990 |
| 1155 | Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internetsM.T. Rose, K. McCloghrie | Internet Standard | May 1990 |
| 1156 | Management Information Base for network management of TCP/IP-based internetsK. McCloghrie, M.T. Rose | Historic | May 1990 |
| 1158 | Management Information Base for network management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-IIM.T. Rose · obsoleted by RFC 1213 | Proposed Standard | May 1990 |
| 1180 | TCP/IP tutorialT.J. Socolofsky, C.J. Kale | Informational | January 1991 |
| 1189 | Common Management Information Services and Protocols for the Internet (CMOT and CMIP)U.S. Warrier, L. Besaw, L. LaBarre, B.D. Handspicker | Historic | October 1990 |
| 1288 | The Finger User Information ProtocolD. Zimmerman | Draft Standard | December 1991 |
| 1311 | Introduction to the STD NotesJ. Postel | Informational | March 1992 |
| 1400 | Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration ServiceS. Williamson | Informational | March 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 |
| 1591 | Domain Name System Structure and DelegationJ. Postel | Informational | March 1994 |
| 1594 | FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" QuestionsA. Marine, J. Reynolds, G. Malkin · obsoleted by RFC 2664 | Informational | March 1994 |
| 1738 | Uniform Resource Locators (URL)T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill · obsoleted by RFC 4248, RFC 4266 | Proposed Standard | December 1994 |
| 1739 | A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP ToolsG. Kessler, S. Shepard · obsoleted by RFC 2151 | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1866 | Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | November 1995 |
| 1918 | Address Allocation for Private InternetsY. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear | Best Current Practice | February 1996 |
| 1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk | Informational | May 1996 |
| 2000 | Internet Official Protocol StandardsJ. Postel, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 2200 | Historic | February 1997 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2028 | The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards ProcessR. Hovey, S. Bradner · obsoleted by RFC 9281 | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2031 | IETF-ISOC relationshipE. Huizer · obsoleted by RFC 8712 | Informational | October 1996 |