| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 792 | Internet Control Message ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 826 | An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet HardwareD. Plummer | Internet Standard | November 1982 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1256 | ICMP Router Discovery MessagesS. Deering, Ed. | Proposed Standard | September 1991 |
| 1753 | IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing ArchitectureN. Chiappa | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1918 | Address Allocation for Private InternetsY. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear | Best Current Practice | February 1996 |
| 1955 | New Scheme for Internet Routing and Addressing (ENCAPS) for IPNGR. Hinden | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2131 | Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolR. Droms | Draft Standard | March 1997 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2501 | Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and Evaluation ConsiderationsS. Corson, J. Macker | Informational | January 1999 |
| 2529 | Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit TunnelsB. Carpenter, C. Jung | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 3007 | Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic UpdateB. Wellington | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3315 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)R. Droms, Ed., J. Bound, B. Volz, T. Lemon, C. Perkins, M. Carney · obsoleted by RFC 8415 | Proposed Standard | July 2003 |
| 3596 | DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi | Internet Standard | October 2003 |
| 3633 | IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6O. Troan, R. Droms · obsoleted by RFC 8415 | Proposed Standard | December 2003 |
| 3704 | Ingress Filtering for Multihomed NetworksF. Baker, P. Savola | Best Current Practice | March 2004 |
| 3819 | Advice for Internet Subnetwork DesignersP. Karn, Ed., C. Bormann, G. Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood | Best Current Practice | July 2004 |
| 3927 | Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local AddressesS. Cheshire, B. Aboba, E. Guttman | Proposed Standard | May 2005 |
| 3932 | The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: ProceduresH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5742 | Best Current Practice | October 2004 |
| 3971 | SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)J. Arkko, Ed., J. Kempf, B. Zill, P. Nikander | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 3972 | Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)T. Aura | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4191 | Default Router Preferences and More-Specific RoutesR. Draves, D. Thaler | Proposed Standard | November 2005 |
| 4192 | Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag DayF. Baker, E. Lear, R. Droms | Informational | September 2005 |
| 4193 | Unique Local IPv6 Unicast AddressesR. Hinden, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 2005 |
| 4291 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering | Draft Standard | February 2006 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4380 | Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)C. Huitema | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4389 | Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy)D. Thaler, M. Talwar, C. Patel | Experimental | April 2006 |
| 4443 | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering, M. Gupta, Ed. | Internet Standard | March 2006 |
| 4795 | Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)B. Aboba, D. Thaler, L. Esibov | Informational | January 2007 |
| 4852 | IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis - IP Layer 3 FocusJ. Bound, Y. Pouffary, S. Klynsma, T. Chown, D. Green | Informational | April 2007 |
| 4861 | Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 4862 | IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationS. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 4903 | Multi-Link Subnet IssuesD. Thaler | Informational | June 2007 |
| 4941 | Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6T. Narten, R. Draves, S. Krishnan · obsoleted by RFC 8981 | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 5214 | Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)F. Templin, T. Gleeson, D. Thaler | Informational | March 2008 |
| 5320 | The Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL)F. Templin, Ed. | Experimental | February 2010 |
| 5720 | Routing and Addressing in Networks with Global Enterprise Recursion (RANGER)F. Templin | Informational | February 2010 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |