| 896 | Congestion Control in IP/TCP InternetworksJ. Nagle · obsoleted by RFC 7805 | Historic | January 1984 |
| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2212 | Specification of Guaranteed Quality of ServiceS. Shenker, C. Partridge, R. Guerin | 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 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2616 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee · obsoleted by RFC 7230, RFC 7231, RFC 7232, RFC 7233, RFC 7234, RFC 7235 | Draft Standard | June 1999 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 2990 | Next Steps for the IP QoS ArchitectureG. Huston | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3124 | The Congestion ManagerH. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan | Proposed Standard | June 2001 |
| 3662 | A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) for Differentiated ServicesR. Bless, K. Nichols, K. Wehrle · obsoleted by RFC 8622 | Informational | December 2003 |
| 3714 | IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the InternetS. Floyd, Ed., J. Kempf, Ed. | Informational | March 2004 |
| 3932 | The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: ProceduresH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5742 | Best Current Practice | October 2004 |
| 5166 | Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control MechanismsS. Floyd, Ed. | Informational | March 2008 |