| 822 | STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESD. Crocker · obsoleted by RFC 2822 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 1036 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton, R. Adams · obsoleted by RFC 5536, RFC 5537 | Unknown | December 1987 |
| 1496 | Rules for downgrading messages from X.400/88 to X.400/84 when MIME content-types are present in the messagesH. Alvestrand, J. Romaguera, K. Jordan | Historic | August 1993 |
| 1505 | Encoding Header Field for Internet MessagesA. Costanzo, D. Robinson, R. Ullmann | Experimental | August 1993 |
| 1737 | Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource NamesK. Sollins, L. Masinter | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1864 | The Content-MD5 Header FieldJ. Myers, M. Rose | Draft Standard | October 1995 |
| 1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk | Informational | May 1996 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2141 | URN SyntaxR. Moats · obsoleted by RFC 8141 | Proposed Standard | May 1997 |
| 2156 | MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIMES. Kille | Proposed Standard | January 1998 |
| 2183 | Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header FieldR. Troost, S. Dorner, K. Moore, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 1997 |
| 2227 | Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTPJ. Mogul, P. Leach | Proposed Standard | October 1997 |
| 2231 | MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and ContinuationsN. Freed, K. Moore | Proposed Standard | November 1997 |
| 2298 | An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition NotificationsR. Fajman · obsoleted by RFC 3798 | Proposed Standard | March 1998 |
| 2369 | The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header FieldsG. Neufeld, J. Baer | Proposed Standard | July 1998 |
| 2396 | Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 3986 | Draft Standard | August 1998 |
| 2421 | Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2G. Vaudreuil, G. Parsons · obsoleted by RFC 3801 | Proposed Standard | September 1998 |
| 2434 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5226 | Best Current Practice | October 1998 |
| 2518 | HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAVY. Goland, E. Whitehead, A. Faizi, S. Carter, D. Jensen · obsoleted by RFC 4918 | Proposed Standard | February 1999 |
| 2557 | MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness | Proposed Standard | March 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 |
| 2617 | HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access AuthenticationJ. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart · obsoleted by RFC 7235, RFC 7615, RFC 7616, RFC 7617 | Draft Standard | June 1999 |
| 2821 | Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolJ. Klensin, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5321 | Proposed Standard | April 2001 |
| 2822 | Internet Message FormatP. Resnick, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5322 | Proposed Standard | April 2001 |
| 2912 | Indicating Media Features for MIME ContentG. Klyne | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 2919 | List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing ListsR. Chandhok, G. Wenger | Proposed Standard | March 2001 |
| 2965 | HTTP State Management MechanismD. Kristol, L. Montulli · obsoleted by RFC 6265 | Historic | October 2000 |
| 3261 | SIP: Session Initiation ProtocolJ. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E. Schooler | Proposed Standard | July 2002 |
| 3282 | Content Language HeadersH. Alvestrand | Draft Standard | May 2002 |
| 3798 | Message Disposition NotificationT. Hansen, Ed., G. Vaudreuil, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8098 | Draft Standard | May 2004 |
| 3801 | Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2)G. Vaudreuil, G. Parsons | Draft Standard | June 2004 |