| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2617 | HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access AuthenticationJ. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart · obsoleted by RFC 7235, RFC 7615, RFC 7616, RFC 7617 | Draft Standard | June 1999 |
| 2782 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov | Proposed Standard | February 2000 |
| 3261 | SIP: Session Initiation ProtocolJ. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E. Schooler | Proposed Standard | July 2002 |
| 3264 | An Offer/Answer Model with Session Description Protocol (SDP)J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne | Proposed Standard | July 2002 |
| 3268 | Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)P. Chown · obsoleted by RFC 5246 | Proposed Standard | July 2002 |
| 3280 | Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) ProfileR. Housley, W. Polk, W. Ford, D. Solo · obsoleted by RFC 5280 | Proposed Standard | May 2002 |
| 3851 | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message SpecificationB. Ramsdell, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5751 | Proposed Standard | July 2004 |
| 4234 | Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNFD. Crocker, Ed., P. Overell · obsoleted by RFC 5234 | Draft Standard | October 2005 |
| 4346 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1T. Dierks, E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 5246 | Historic | April 2006 |
| 4366 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) ExtensionsS. Blake-Wilson, M. Nystrom, D. Hopwood, J. Mikkelsen, T. Wright · obsoleted by RFC 5246, RFC 6066 | Proposed Standard | April 2006 |
| 4566 | SDP: Session Description ProtocolM. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Perkins · obsoleted by RFC 8866 | Proposed Standard | July 2006 |
| 4975 | The Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)B. Campbell, Ed., R. Mahy, Ed., C. Jennings, Ed. | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |