| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 951 | Bootstrap ProtocolW.J. Croft, J. Gilmore | Draft Standard | September 1985 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1183 | New DNS RR DefinitionsC. Everhart, L. Mamakos, R. Ullmann, P. Mockapetris, Ed. | Experimental | October 1990 |
| 1323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceV. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 7323 | Proposed Standard | May 1992 |
| 1546 | Host Anycasting ServiceC. Partridge, T. Mendez, W. Milliken | Informational | November 1993 |
| 1644 | T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional SpecificationR. Braden · obsoleted by RFC 6247 | Historic | July 1994 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1889 | RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time ApplicationsAudio-Video Transport Working Group, H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, V. Jacobson · obsoleted by RFC 3550 | Proposed Standard | January 1996 |
| 2002 | IP Mobility SupportC. Perkins, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 3220 | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2052 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 2782 | Experimental | October 1996 |
| 2101 | IPv4 Address Behaviour TodayB. Carpenter, J. Crowcroft, Y. Rekhter | Informational | February 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 |
| 2140 | TCP Control Block InterdependenceJ. Touch · obsoleted by RFC 9040 | Informational | April 1997 |
| 2205 | Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional SpecificationR. Braden, Ed., L. Zhang, S. Berson, S. Herzog, S. Jamin | Proposed Standard | September 1997 |
| 2283 | Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4T. Bates, R. Chandra, D. Katz, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 2858 | Proposed Standard | February 1998 |
| 2414 | Increasing TCP's Initial WindowM. Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 3390 | Experimental | September 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2462 | IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationS. Thomson, T. Narten · obsoleted by RFC 4862 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2474 | Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 HeadersK. Nichols, S. Blake, F. Baker, D. Black | Proposed Standard | December 1998 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2481 | A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd · obsoleted by RFC 3168 | Experimental | January 1999 |
| 2488 | Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard MechanismsM. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez | Best Current Practice | January 1999 |
| 2543 | SIP: Session Initiation ProtocolM. Handley, H. Schulzrinne, E. Schooler, J. Rosenberg · obsoleted by RFC 3261, RFC 3262, RFC 3263, RFC 3264, RFC 3265 | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2582 | The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery AlgorithmS. Floyd, T. Henderson · obsoleted by RFC 3782 | Experimental | April 1999 |
| 2608 | Service Location Protocol, Version 2E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Veizades, M. Day | Proposed Standard | June 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 |
| 2663 | IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and ConsiderationsP. Srisuresh, M. Holdrege | Informational | August 1999 |
| 2760 | Ongoing TCP Research Related to SatellitesM. Allman, Ed., S. Dawkins, D. Glover, J. Griner, D. Tran, T. Henderson, J. Heidemann, J. Touch, H. Kruse, S. Ostermann, K. Scott, J. Semke | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2836 | Per Hop Behavior Identification CodesS. Brim, B. Carpenter, F. Le Faucheur · obsoleted by RFC 3140 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 2883 | An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCPS. Floyd, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis, M. Podolsky | Proposed Standard | July 2000 |
| 2894 | Router Renumbering for IPv6M. Crawford | Proposed Standard | August 2000 |
| 2960 | Stream Control Transmission ProtocolR. Stewart, Q. Xie, K. Morneault, C. Sharp, H. Schwarzbauer, T. Taylor, I. Rytina, M. Kalla, L. Zhang, V. Paxson · obsoleted by RFC 4960 | Proposed Standard | October 2000 |
| 2993 | Architectural Implications of NATT. Hain | Informational | November 2000 |