| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 854 | Telnet Protocol SpecificationJ. Postel, J.K. Reynolds | Internet Standard | May 1983 |
| 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 |
| 1264 | Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Routing Protocol Standardization CriteriaR.M. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 4794 | Historic | October 1991 |
| 1267 | Border Gateway Protocol 3 (BGP-3)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter | Historic | October 1991 |
| 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 |
| 1772 | Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the InternetY. Rekhter, P. Gross | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1774 | BGP-4 Protocol AnalysisP. Traina, Ed. | Informational | March 1995 |
| 1997 | BGP Communities AttributeR. Chandra, P. Traina, T. Li | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2385 | Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature OptionA. Heffernan · obsoleted by RFC 5925 | Proposed Standard | August 1998 |
| 2406 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4303, RFC 4305 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2622 | Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)C. Alaettinoglu, C. Villamizar, E. Gerich, D. Kessens, D. Meyer, T. Bates, D. Karrenberg, M. Terpstra | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 3345 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Persistent Route Oscillation ConditionD. McPherson, V. Gill, D. Walton, A. Retana | Informational | August 2002 |
| 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 |
| 3682 | The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)V. Gill, J. Heasley, D. Meyer · obsoleted by RFC 5082 | Experimental | February 2004 |
| 4271 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, Ed., T. Li, Ed., S. Hares, Ed. | Draft Standard | January 2006 |
| 4272 | BGP Security Vulnerabilities AnalysisS. Murphy | Informational | January 2006 |