| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 904 | Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specificationD.L. Mills | Historic | April 1984 |
| 1092 | EGP and policy based routing in the new NSFNET backboneJ. Rekhter | Unknown | February 1989 |
| 1093 | NSFNET routing architectureH.W. Braun | Unknown | February 1989 |
| 1105 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 1163 | Experimental | June 1989 |
| 1163 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 1267 | Historic | June 1990 |
| 1267 | Border Gateway Protocol 3 (BGP-3)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter | Historic | October 1991 |
| 1518 | An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDRY. Rekhter, T. Li | Historic | September 1993 |
| 1519 | Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation StrategyV. Fuller, T. Li, J. Yu, K. Varadhan · obsoleted by RFC 4632 | Proposed Standard | September 1993 |
| 1750 | Randomness Recommendations for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, S. Crocker, J. Schiller · obsoleted by RFC 4086 | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1772 | Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the InternetY. Rekhter, P. Gross | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1930 | Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)J. Hawkinson, T. Bates | Best Current Practice | March 1996 |
| 1997 | BGP Communities AttributeR. Chandra, P. Traina, T. Li | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2385 | Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature OptionA. Heffernan · obsoleted by RFC 5925 | Proposed Standard | August 1998 |
| 2434 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5226 | Best Current Practice | October 1998 |
| 2439 | BGP Route Flap DampingC. Villamizar, R. Chandra, R. Govindan | Proposed Standard | November 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 |
| 2796 | BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGPT. Bates, R. Chandra, E. Chen · obsoleted by RFC 4456 | Proposed Standard | April 2000 |
| 2858 | Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4T. Bates, Y. Rekhter, R. Chandra, D. Katz · obsoleted by RFC 4760 | Proposed Standard | June 2000 |
| 2918 | Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4E. Chen | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 3065 | Autonomous System Confederations for BGPP. Traina, D. McPherson, J. Scudder · obsoleted by RFC 5065 | Proposed Standard | February 2001 |
| 3392 | Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4R. Chandra, J. Scudder · obsoleted by RFC 5492 | Draft Standard | November 2002 |
| 3562 | Key Management Considerations for the TCP MD5 Signature OptionM. Leech | Informational | July 2003 |
| 4020 | Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code PointsK. Kompella, A. Zinin · obsoleted by RFC 7120 | Best Current Practice | March 2005 |
| 4272 | BGP Security Vulnerabilities AnalysisS. Murphy | Informational | January 2006 |