| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2130 | The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996C. Weider, C. Preston, K. Simonsen, H. Alvestrand, R. Atkinson, M. Crispin, P. Svanberg | Informational | April 1997 |
| 2211 | Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element ServiceJ. Wroclawski | Proposed Standard | September 1997 |
| 2212 | Specification of Guaranteed Quality of ServiceS. Shenker, C. Partridge, R. Guerin | Proposed Standard | September 1997 |
| 2277 | IETF Policy on Character Sets and LanguagesH. Alvestrand | Best Current Practice | January 1998 |
| 2316 | Report of the IAB Security Architecture WorkshopS. Bellovin | Informational | April 1998 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 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 |
| 2597 | Assured Forwarding PHB GroupJ. Heinanen, F. Baker, W. Weiss, J. Wroclawski | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 2990 | Next Steps for the IP QoS ArchitectureG. Huston | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3124 | The Congestion ManagerH. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan | Proposed Standard | June 2001 |
| 3135 | Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related DegradationsJ. Border, M. Kojo, J. Griner, G. Montenegro, Z. Shelby | Informational | June 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3205 | On the use of HTTP as a SubstrateK. Moore · obsoleted by RFC 9205 | Best Current Practice | February 2002 |
| 3221 | Commentary on Inter-Domain Routing in the InternetG. Huston | Informational | December 2001 |
| 3234 | Middleboxes: Taxonomy and IssuesB. Carpenter, S. Brim | Informational | February 2002 |
| 3238 | IAB Architectural and Policy Considerations for Open Pluggable Edge ServicesS. Floyd, L. Daigle | Informational | January 2002 |
| 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 |
| 3360 | Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered HarmfulS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | August 2002 |
| 3403 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) DatabaseM. Mealling | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3424 | IAB Considerations for UNilateral Self-Address Fixing (UNSAF) Across Network Address TranslationL. Daigle, Ed., IAB | Informational | November 2002 |
| 3427 | Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)A. Mankin, S. Bradner, R. Mahy, D. Willis, J. Ott, B. Rosen · obsoleted by RFC 5727 | Best Current Practice | December 2002 |