| 822 | STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESD. Crocker · obsoleted by RFC 2822 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 850 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton · obsoleted by RFC 1036 | Unknown | June 1983 |
| 1036 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton, R. Adams · obsoleted by RFC 5536, RFC 5537 | Unknown | December 1987 |
| 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 |
| 2047 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII TextK. Moore | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2049 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and ExamplesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2156 | MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIMES. Kille | Proposed Standard | January 1998 |
| 2183 | Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header FieldR. Troost, S. Dorner, K. Moore, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 1997 |
| 2231 | MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and ContinuationsN. Freed, K. Moore | Proposed Standard | November 1997 |
| 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 |
| 2822 | Internet Message FormatP. Resnick, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5322 | Proposed Standard | April 2001 |
| 2980 | Common NNTP ExtensionsS. Barber | Informational | October 2000 |
| 3156 | MIME Security with OpenPGPM. Elkins, D. Del Torto, R. Levien, T. Roessler | Proposed Standard | August 2001 |
| 3282 | Content Language HeadersH. Alvestrand | Draft Standard | May 2002 |
| 3696 | Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of NamesJ. Klensin | Informational | February 2004 |
| 3851 | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message SpecificationB. Ramsdell, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5751 | Proposed Standard | July 2004 |
| 3864 | Registration Procedures for Message Header FieldsG. Klyne, M. Nottingham, J. Mogul | Best Current Practice | September 2004 |
| 3977 | Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)C. Feather | Proposed Standard | October 2006 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 5234 | Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNFD. Crocker, Ed., P. Overell | Internet Standard | January 2008 |
| 5322 | Internet Message FormatP. Resnick, Ed. | Draft Standard | October 2008 |
| 5537 | Netnews Architecture and ProtocolsR. Allbery, Ed., C. Lindsey | Proposed Standard | November 2009 |