| 1075 | Distance Vector Multicast Routing ProtocolD. Waitzman, C. Partridge, S.E. Deering | Experimental | November 1988 |
| 1661 | The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)W. Simpson, Ed. | Internet Standard | July 1994 |
| 1701 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina | Informational | October 1994 |
| 1723 | RIP Version 2 - Carrying Additional InformationG. Malkin · obsoleted by RFC 2453 | Internet Standard | November 1994 |
| 1755 | ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATMM. Perez, F. Liaw, A. Mankin, E. Hoffman, D. Grossman, A. Malis | Proposed Standard | February 1995 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1990 | The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)K. Sklower, B. Lloyd, G. McGregor, D. Carr, T. Coradetti | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2125 | The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) / The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP)C. Richards, K. Smith | Proposed Standard | March 1997 |
| 2131 | Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolR. Droms | Draft Standard | March 1997 |
| 2138 | Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)C. Rigney, A. Rubens, W. Simpson, S. Willens · obsoleted by RFC 2865 | Proposed Standard | April 1997 |
| 2251 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille · obsoleted by RFC 4510, RFC 4511, RFC 4512, RFC 4513 | Proposed Standard | December 1997 |
| 2328 | OSPF Version 2J. Moy | Internet Standard | April 1998 |
| 2341 | Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) "L2F"A. Valencia, M. Littlewood, T. Kolar | Historic | May 1998 |
| 2362 | Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol SpecificationD. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy, D. Thaler, S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, P. Sharma, L. Wei · obsoleted by RFC 4601, RFC 5059 | Experimental | June 1998 |
| 2393 | IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)A. Shacham, R. Monsour, R. Pereira, M. Thomas · obsoleted by RFC 3173 | Proposed Standard | December 1998 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2406 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4303, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2409 | The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)D. Harkins, D. Carrel · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2477 | Criteria for Evaluating Roaming ProtocolsB. Aboba, G. Zorn | Informational | January 1999 |
| 2516 | A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)L. Mamakos, K. Lidl, J. Evarts, D. Carrel, D. Simone, R. Wheeler | Informational | February 1999 |
| 2547 | BGP/MPLS VPNsE. Rosen, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 4364 | Informational | March 1999 |
| 2598 | An Expedited Forwarding PHBV. Jacobson, K. Nichols, K. Poduri · obsoleted by RFC 3246 | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2627 | Key Management for Multicast: Issues and ArchitecturesD. Wallner, E. Harder, R. Agee | Informational | June 1999 |
| 2637 | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)K. Hamzeh, G. Pall, W. Verthein, J. Taarud, W. Little, G. Zorn | Informational | July 1999 |
| 2661 | Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"W. Townsley, A. Valencia, A. Rubens, G. Pall, G. Zorn, B. Palter | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2684 | Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5D. Grossman, J. Heinanen | Proposed Standard | September 1999 |
| 2685 | Virtual Private Networks IdentifierB. Fox, B. Gleeson | Proposed Standard | September 1999 |
| 2748 | The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) ProtocolD. Durham, Ed., J. Boyle, R. Cohen, S. Herzog, R. Rajan, A. Sastry | Proposed Standard | January 2000 |