| 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 |
| 2251 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)M. Wahl, T. Howes, S. Kille · obsoleted by RFC 4510, RFC 4511, RFC 4512, RFC 4513 | Proposed Standard | December 1997 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2828 | Internet Security GlossaryR. Shirey · obsoleted by RFC 4949 | Informational | May 2000 |
| 2829 | Authentication Methods for LDAPM. Wahl, H. Alvestrand, J. Hodges, R. Morgan · obsoleted by RFC 4510, RFC 4513 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 2830 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer SecurityJ. Hodges, R. Morgan, M. Wahl · obsoleted by RFC 4510, RFC 4511, RFC 4513 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 3454 | Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet · obsoleted by RFC 7564 | Proposed Standard | January 2003 |
| 3490 | Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)P. Faltstrom, P. Hoffman, A. Costello · obsoleted by RFC 5890, RFC 5891 | Proposed Standard | March 2003 |
| 3629 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau | Internet Standard | November 2003 |
| 4013 | SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names and PasswordsK. Zeilenga · obsoleted by RFC 7613 | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4234 | Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNFD. Crocker, Ed., P. Overell · obsoleted by RFC 5234 | Draft Standard | October 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4346 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1T. Dierks, E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 5246 | Historic | April 2006 |
| 4422 | Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)A. Melnikov, Ed., K. Zeilenga, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4505 | Anonymous Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) MechanismK. Zeilenga | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4510 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Technical Specification Road MapK. Zeilenga, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4511 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The ProtocolJ. Sermersheim, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4512 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Directory Information ModelsK. Zeilenga, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4514 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Distinguished NamesK. Zeilenga, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4517 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Syntaxes and Matching RulesS. Legg, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4519 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Schema for User ApplicationsA. Sciberras, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4520 | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)K. Zeilenga | Best Current Practice | June 2006 |