| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 2309 | Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the InternetB. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang · obsoleted by RFC 7567 | Informational | April 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 |
| 2597 | Assured Forwarding PHB GroupJ. Heinanen, F. Baker, W. Weiss, J. Wroclawski | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2697 | A Single Rate Three Color MarkerJ. Heinanen, R. Guerin | Informational | September 1999 |
| 2698 | A Two Rate Three Color MarkerJ. Heinanen, R. Guerin | Informational | September 1999 |
| 2998 | A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv NetworksY. Bernet, P. Ford, R. Yavatkar, F. Baker, L. Zhang, M. Speer, R. Braden, B. Davie, J. Wroclawski, E. Felstaine | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3086 | Definition of Differentiated Services Per Domain Behaviors and Rules for their SpecificationK. Nichols, B. Carpenter | Informational | April 2001 |
| 3198 | Terminology for Policy-Based ManagementA. Westerinen, J. Schnizlein, J. Strassner, M. Scherling, B. Quinn, S. Herzog, A. Huynh, M. Carlson, J. Perry, S. Waldbusser | Informational | November 2001 |
| 3246 | An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)B. Davie, A. Charny, J.C.R. Bennet, K. Benson, J.Y. Le Boudec, W. Courtney, S. Davari, V. Firoiu, D. Stiliadis | Proposed Standard | March 2002 |
| 3260 | New Terminology and Clarifications for DiffservD. Grossman | Informational | April 2002 |
| 3289 | Management Information Base for the Differentiated Services ArchitectureF. Baker, K. Chan, A. Smith | Proposed Standard | June 2002 |