| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceV. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 7323 | Proposed Standard | May 1992 |
| 1633 | Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an OverviewR. Braden, D. Clark, S. Shenker | Informational | June 1994 |
| 2001 | TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery AlgorithmsW. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 2581 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2216 | Network Element Service Specification TemplateS. Shenker, J. Wroclawski | Informational | September 1997 |
| 2330 | Framework for IP Performance MetricsV. Paxson, G. Almes, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis | Informational | May 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 |
| 2525 | Known TCP Implementation ProblemsV. Paxson, M. Allman, S. Dawson, W. Fenner, J. Griner, I. Heavens, K. Lahey, J. Semke, B. Volz | Informational | 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 |
| 2988 | Computing TCP's Retransmission TimerV. Paxson, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 6298 | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3042 | Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited TransmitM. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |