| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1179 | Line printer daemon protocolL. McLaughlin | Informational | August 1990 |
| 1759 | Printer MIBR. Smith, F. Wright, T. Hastings, S. Zilles, J. Gyllenskog · obsoleted by RFC 3805 | Proposed Standard | March 1995 |
| 1766 | Tags for the Identification of LanguagesH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 3066, RFC 3282 | Proposed Standard | March 1995 |
| 1951 | DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3P. Deutsch | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1952 | GZIP file format specification version 4.3P. Deutsch | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1977 | PPP BSD Compression ProtocolV. Schryver | Informational | August 1996 |
| 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 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2048 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 4288, RFC 4289 | Best Current Practice | November 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2228 | FTP Security ExtensionsM. Horowitz, S. Lunt | Proposed Standard | October 1997 |
| 2246 | The TLS Protocol Version 1.0T. Dierks, C. Allen · obsoleted by RFC 4346 | Historic | January 1999 |
| 2277 | IETF Policy on Character Sets and LanguagesH. Alvestrand | Best Current Practice | January 1998 |
| 2278 | IANA Charset Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2978 | Informational | January 1998 |
| 2279 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau · obsoleted by RFC 3629 | Draft Standard | January 1998 |
| 2316 | Report of the IAB Security Architecture WorkshopS. Bellovin | Informational | April 1998 |
| 2396 | Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 3986 | Draft Standard | August 1998 |
| 2565 | Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and TransportR. Herriot, Ed., S. Butler, P. Moore, R. Turner · obsoleted by RFC 2910 | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2566 | Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Model and SemanticsR. deBry, T. Hastings, R. Herriot, S. Isaacson, P. Powell · obsoleted by RFC 2911 | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2567 | Design Goals for an Internet Printing ProtocolF. Wright | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2568 | Rationale for the Structure of the Model and Protocol for the Internet Printing ProtocolS. Zilles | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2569 | Mapping between LPD and IPP ProtocolsR. Herriot, Ed., T. Hastings, N. Jacobs, J. Martin | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2579 | Textual Conventions for SMIv2K. McCloghrie, Ed., D. Perkins, Ed., J. Schoenwaelder, Ed. | Internet Standard | April 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 |
| 2617 | HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access AuthenticationJ. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart · obsoleted by RFC 7235, RFC 7615, RFC 7616, RFC 7617 | Draft Standard | June 1999 |
| 2639 | Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Implementer's GuideT. Hastings, C. Manros · obsoleted by RFC 3196 | Informational | July 1999 |
| 2910 | Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and TransportR. Herriot, Ed., S. Butler, P. Moore, R. Turner, J. Wenn · obsoleted by RFC 8010 | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |