| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 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 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2461 | Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson · obsoleted by RFC 4861 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2760 | Ongoing TCP Research Related to SatellitesM. Allman, Ed., S. Dawkins, D. Glover, J. Griner, D. Tran, T. Henderson, J. Heidemann, J. Touch, H. Kruse, S. Ostermann, K. Scott, J. Semke | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 2923 | TCP Problems with Path MTU DiscoveryK. Lahey | Informational | September 2000 |
| 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 |
| 3517 | A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCPE. Blanton, M. Allman, K. Fall, L. Wang · obsoleted by RFC 6675 | Proposed Standard | April 2003 |
| 3697 | IPv6 Flow Label SpecificationJ. Rajahalme, A. Conta, B. Carpenter, S. Deering · obsoleted by RFC 6437 | Proposed Standard | March 2004 |
| 4340 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4820 | Padding Chunk and Parameter for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)M. Tuexen, R. Stewart, P. Lei | Proposed Standard | March 2007 |