| 792 | Internet Control Message ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1812 | Requirements for IP Version 4 RoutersF. Baker, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 1948 | Defending Against Sequence Number AttacksS. Bellovin · obsoleted by RFC 6528 | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1982 | Serial Number ArithmeticR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | August 1996 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | 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 |
| 2434 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5226 | Best Current Practice | October 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2463 | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering · obsoleted by RFC 4443 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 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 |
| 3124 | The Congestion ManagerH. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan | Proposed Standard | June 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3309 | Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum ChangeJ. Stone, R. Stewart, D. Otis · obsoleted by RFC 4960 | Proposed Standard | September 2002 |
| 3360 | Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered HarmfulS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | August 2002 |
| 3448 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationM. Handley, S. Floyd, J. Padhye, J. Widmer · obsoleted by RFC 5348 | Proposed Standard | January 2003 |
| 3540 | Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with NoncesN. Spring, D. Wetherall, D. Ely | Historic | June 2003 |
| 3550 | RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time ApplicationsH. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, V. Jacobson | Internet Standard | July 2003 |
| 3611 | RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR)T. Friedman, Ed., R. Caceres, Ed., A. Clark, Ed. | Proposed Standard | November 2003 |
| 3692 | Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered UsefulT. Narten | Best Current Practice | January 2004 |
| 3711 | The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)M. Baugher, D. McGrew, M. Naslund, E. Carrara, K. Norrman | Proposed Standard | March 2004 |
| 3775 | Mobility Support in IPv6D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko · obsoleted by RFC 6275 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3819 | Advice for Internet Subnetwork DesignersP. Karn, Ed., C. Bormann, G. Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood | Best Current Practice | July 2004 |
| 3828 | The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)L-A. Larzon, M. Degermark, S. Pink, L-E. Jonsson, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. | Proposed Standard | July 2004 |
| 4086 | Randomness Requirements for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Schiller, S. Crocker | Best Current Practice | June 2005 |
| 4341 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion ControlS. Floyd, E. Kohler | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4342 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)S. Floyd, E. Kohler, J. Padhye | Proposed Standard | April 2006 |