| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2526 | Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast AddressesD. Johnson, S. Deering | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2627 | Key Management for Multicast: Issues and ArchitecturesD. Wallner, E. Harder, R. Agee | Informational | June 1999 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 3171 | IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address AssignmentsZ. Albanna, K. Almeroth, D. Meyer, M. Schipper · obsoleted by RFC 5771 | Best Current Practice | August 2001 |
| 3306 | Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast AddressesB. Haberman, D. Thaler | Proposed Standard | September 2002 |
| 3307 | Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast AddressesB. Haberman | Proposed Standard | September 2002 |
| 3376 | Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3B. Cain, S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan · obsoleted by RFC 9776 | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3547 | The Group Domain of InterpretationM. Baugher, B. Weis, T. Hardjono, H. Harney · obsoleted by RFC 6407 | Proposed Standard | July 2003 |
| 3552 | Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security ConsiderationsE. Rescorla, B. Korver | Best Current Practice | July 2003 |
| 3569 | An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)S. Bhattacharyya, Ed. | Informational | July 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 |
| 3940 | Negative-acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) ProtocolB. Adamson, C. Bormann, M. Handley, J. Macker · obsoleted by RFC 5740 | Experimental | November 2004 |
| 4046 | Multicast Security (MSEC) Group Key Management ArchitectureM. Baugher, R. Canetti, L. Dondeti, F. Lindholm | Informational | May 2005 |
| 4082 | Timed Efficient Stream Loss-Tolerant Authentication (TESLA): Multicast Source Authentication Transform IntroductionA. Perrig, D. Song, R. Canetti, J. D. Tygar, B. Briscoe | Informational | June 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4302 | IP Authentication HeaderS. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4303 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4306 | Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) ProtocolC. Kaufman, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5996 | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4359 | The Use of RSA/SHA-1 Signatures within Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)B. Weis | Proposed Standard | January 2006 |
| 4535 | GSAKMP: Group Secure Association Key Management ProtocolH. Harney, U. Meth, A. Colegrove, G. Gross | Proposed Standard | June 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 |
| 4891 | Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 TunnelsR. Graveman, M. Parthasarathy, P. Savola, H. Tschofenig | Informational | May 2007 |