| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceV. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 7323 | Proposed Standard | May 1992 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2330 | Framework for IP Performance MetricsV. Paxson, G. Almes, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis | Informational | May 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2679 | A One-way Delay Metric for IPPMG. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas · obsoleted by RFC 7679 | Proposed Standard | September 1999 |
| 2680 | A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPMG. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas · obsoleted by RFC 7680 | Proposed Standard | September 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 |
| 3148 | A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity MetricsM. Mathis, M. Allman | Informational | July 2001 |
| 3393 | IP Packet Delay Variation Metric for IP Performance Metrics (IPPM)C. Demichelis, P. Chimento | Proposed Standard | November 2002 |
| 3432 | Network performance measurement with periodic streamsV. Raisanen, G. Grotefeld, A. Morton | Proposed Standard | December 2002 |
| 3763 | One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP) RequirementsS. Shalunov, B. Teitelbaum | Informational | April 2004 |
| 4148 | IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Metrics RegistryE. Stephan · obsoleted by RFC 6248 | Best Current Practice | August 2005 |
| 4340 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4341 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion ControlS. Floyd, E. Kohler | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4656 | A One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP)S. Shalunov, B. Teitelbaum, A. Karp, J. Boote, M. Zekauskas | Proposed Standard | September 2006 |