| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1123 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1700 | Assigned NumbersJ. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 3232 | Historic | October 1994 |
| 1750 | Randomness Recommendations for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, S. Crocker, J. Schiller · obsoleted by RFC 4086 | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1950 | ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3P. Deutsch, J-L. Gailly | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 1982 | Serial Number ArithmeticR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2104 | HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message AuthenticationH. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti | Informational | February 1997 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2196 | Site Security HandbookB. Fraser | Informational | September 1997 |
| 2373 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering · obsoleted by RFC 3513 | Proposed Standard | July 1998 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2402 | IP Authentication HeaderS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4302, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2406 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4303, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2408 | Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)D. Maughan, M. Schertler, M. Schneider, J. Turner · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2409 | The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)D. Harkins, D. Carrel · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2434 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5226 | Best Current Practice | October 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2481 | A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd · obsoleted by RFC 3168 | Experimental | January 1999 |
| 2522 | Photuris: Session-Key Management ProtocolP. Karn, W. Simpson | Experimental | March 1999 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |