| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1349 | Type of Service in the Internet Protocol SuiteP. Almquist · obsoleted by RFC 2474 | Proposed Standard | July 1992 |
| 1633 | Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an OverviewR. Braden, D. Clark, S. Shenker | Informational | June 1994 |
| 1812 | Requirements for IP Version 4 RoutersF. Baker, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2205 | Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional SpecificationR. Braden, Ed., L. Zhang, S. Berson, S. Herzog, S. Jamin | Proposed Standard | September 1997 |
| 2309 | Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the InternetB. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang · obsoleted by RFC 7567 | Informational | April 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 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2597 | Assured Forwarding PHB GroupJ. Heinanen, F. Baker, W. Weiss, J. Wroclawski | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2697 | A Single Rate Three Color MarkerJ. Heinanen, R. Guerin | Informational | September 1999 |
| 2698 | A Two Rate Three Color MarkerJ. Heinanen, R. Guerin | Informational | September 1999 |
| 2963 | A Rate Adaptive Shaper for Differentiated ServicesO. Bonaventure, S. De Cnodder | Informational | October 2000 |
| 2983 | Differentiated Services and TunnelsD. Black | Informational | October 2000 |
| 2996 | Format of the RSVP DCLASS ObjectY. Bernet | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3086 | Definition of Differentiated Services Per Domain Behaviors and Rules for their SpecificationK. Nichols, B. Carpenter | Informational | April 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3175 | Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 ReservationsF. Baker, C. Iturralde, F. Le Faucheur, B. Davie | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3246 | An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)B. Davie, A. Charny, J.C.R. Bennet, K. Benson, J.Y. Le Boudec, W. Courtney, S. Davari, V. Firoiu, D. Stiliadis | Proposed Standard | March 2002 |
| 3290 | An Informal Management Model for Diffserv RoutersY. Bernet, S. Blake, D. Grossman, A. Smith | Informational | June 2002 |
| 3662 | A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) for Differentiated ServicesR. Bless, K. Nichols, K. Wehrle · obsoleted by RFC 8622 | Informational | December 2003 |
| 3782 | The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery AlgorithmS. Floyd, T. Henderson, A. Gurtov · obsoleted by RFC 6582 | Proposed Standard | April 2004 |