| 1075 | Distance Vector Multicast Routing ProtocolD. Waitzman, C. Partridge, S.E. Deering | Experimental | November 1988 |
| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 1458 | Requirements for Multicast ProtocolsR. Braudes, S. Zabele | Informational | May 1993 |
| 1584 | Multicast Extensions to OSPFJ. Moy | Historic | March 1994 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2189 | Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing -- Protocol Specification --A. Ballardie | Historic | September 1997 |
| 2201 | Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing ArchitectureA. Ballardie | Historic | September 1997 |
| 2715 | Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing ProtocolsD. Thaler | Informational | October 1999 |
| 2784 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)D. Farinacci, T. Li, S. Hanks, D. Meyer, P. Traina | Proposed Standard | March 2000 |
| 3208 | PGM Reliable Transport Protocol SpecificationT. Speakman, J. Crowcroft, J. Gemmell, D. Farinacci, S. Lin, D. Leshchiner, M. Luby, T. Montgomery, L. Rizzo, A. Tweedly, N. Bhaskar, R. Edmonstone, R. Sumanasekera, L. Vicisano | Experimental | December 2001 |
| 3376 | Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3B. Cain, S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan · obsoleted by RFC 9776 | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3446 | Anycast Rendevous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)D. Kim, D. Meyer, H. Kilmer, D. Farinacci | Informational | January 2003 |
| 3488 | Cisco Systems Router-port Group Management Protocol (RGMP)I. Wu, T. Eckert | Informational | March 2003 |
| 3618 | Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)B. Fenner, Ed., D. Meyer, Ed. | Experimental | October 2003 |
| 3740 | The Multicast Group Security ArchitectureT. Hardjono, B. Weis | Informational | March 2004 |
| 3810 | Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6R. Vida, Ed., L. Costa, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9777 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3913 | Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol SpecificationD. Thaler | Historic | September 2004 |
| 3956 | Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast AddressP. Savola, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | November 2004 |
| 3973 | Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised)A. Adams, J. Nicholas, W. Siadak | Experimental | January 2005 |
| 4286 | Multicast Router DiscoveryB. Haberman, J. Martin | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4541 | Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping SwitchesM. Christensen, K. Kimball, F. Solensky | Informational | May 2006 |
| 4566 | SDP: Session Description ProtocolM. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Perkins · obsoleted by RFC 8866 | Proposed Standard | July 2006 |
| 4601 | Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)B. Fenner, M. Handley, H. Holbrook, I. Kouvelas · obsoleted by RFC 7761 | Proposed Standard | August 2006 |
| 4605 | Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) / Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)-Based Multicast Forwarding ("IGMP/MLD Proxying")B. Fenner, H. He, B. Haberman, H. Sandick | Proposed Standard | August 2006 |
| 4607 | Source-Specific Multicast for IPH. Holbrook, B. Cain | Proposed Standard | August 2006 |
| 4609 | Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Multicast Routing Security Issues and EnhancementsP. Savola, R. Lehtonen, D. Meyer | Informational | October 2006 |
| 4610 | Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)D. Farinacci, Y. Cai | Proposed Standard | August 2006 |
| 4760 | Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4T. Bates, R. Chandra, D. Katz, Y. Rekhter | Draft Standard | January 2007 |
| 4915 | Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPFP. Psenak, S. Mirtorabi, A. Roy, L. Nguyen, P. Pillay-Esnault | Proposed Standard | June 2007 |
| 5015 | Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM)M. Handley, I. Kouvelas, T. Speakman, L. Vicisano | Proposed Standard | October 2007 |
| 5059 | Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)N. Bhaskar, A. Gall, J. Lingard, S. Venaas | Proposed Standard | January 2008 |