| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2406 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4303, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2409 | The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)D. Harkins, D. Carrel · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2461 | Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson · obsoleted by RFC 4861 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2462 | IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationS. Thomson, T. Narten · obsoleted by RFC 4862 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2631 | Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement MethodE. Rescorla | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2710 | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 1999 |
| 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 |
| 3095 | RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP, ESP, and uncompressedC. Bormann, C. Burmeister, M. Degermark, H. Fukushima, H. Hannu, L-E. Jonsson, R. Hakenberg, T. Koren, K. Le, Z. Liu, A. Martensson, A. Miyazaki, K. Svanbro, T. Wiebke, T. Yoshimura, H. Zheng | Proposed Standard | July 2001 |
| 3374 | Problem Description: Reasons For Performing Context Transfers Between Nodes in an IP Access NetworkJ. Kempf, Ed. | Informational | September 2002 |
| 3513 | Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering · obsoleted by RFC 4291 | Proposed Standard | April 2003 |
| 3753 | Mobility Related TerminologyJ. Manner, Ed., M. Kojo, Ed. | Informational | June 2004 |
| 3758 | Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability ExtensionR. Stewart, M. Ramalho, Q. Xie, M. Tuexen, P. Conrad | Proposed Standard | May 2004 |
| 3775 | Mobility Support in IPv6D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko · obsoleted by RFC 6275 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3957 | Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Registration Keys for Mobile IPv4C. Perkins, P. Calhoun | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4065 | Instructions for Seamoby and Experimental Mobility Protocol IANA AllocationsJ. Kempf | Experimental | July 2005 |