| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 896 | Congestion Control in IP/TCP InternetworksJ. Nagle · obsoleted by RFC 7805 | Historic | January 1984 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 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 |
| 2030 | Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSID. Mills · obsoleted by RFC 4330 | Informational | October 1996 |
| 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 |
| 2402 | IP Authentication HeaderS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4302, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2404 | The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AHC. Madson, R. Glenn | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2405 | The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IVC. Madson, N. Doraswamy | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2406 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4303, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2407 | The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMPD. Piper · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2408 | Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)D. Maughan, M. Schertler, M. Schneider, J. Turner · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2409 | The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)D. Harkins, D. Carrel · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2410 | The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsecR. Glenn, S. Kent | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2451 | The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher AlgorithmsR. Pereira, R. Adams | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2625 | IP and ARP over Fibre ChannelM. Rajagopal, R. Bhagwat, W. Rickard · obsoleted by RFC 4338 | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2709 | Security Model with Tunnel-mode IPsec for NAT DomainsP. Srisuresh | Informational | October 1999 |
| 2923 | TCP Problems with Path MTU DiscoveryK. Lahey | Informational | September 2000 |
| 3031 | Multiprotocol Label Switching ArchitectureE. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, R. Callon | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3260 | New Terminology and Clarifications for DiffservD. Grossman | Informational | April 2002 |
| 3270 | Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated ServicesF. Le Faucheur, Ed., L. Wu, B. Davie, S. Davari, P. Vaananen, R. Krishnan, P. Cheval, J. Heinanen | Proposed Standard | May 2002 |
| 3566 | The AES-XCBC-MAC-96 Algorithm and Its Use With IPsecS. Frankel, H. Herbert | Proposed Standard | September 2003 |
| 3643 | Fibre Channel (FC) Frame EncapsulationR. Weber, M. Rajagopal, F. Travostino, M. O'Donnell, C. Monia, M. Merhar | Proposed Standard | December 2003 |
| 3686 | Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Counter Mode With IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)R. Housley | Proposed Standard | January 2004 |
| 4171 | Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)J. Tseng, K. Gibbons, F. Travostino, C. Du Laney, J. Souza | Proposed Standard | September 2005 |