| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1380 | IESG Deliberations on Routing and AddressingP. Gross, P. Almquist | Informational | November 1992 |
| 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 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2529 | Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit TunnelsB. Carpenter, C. Jung | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 3633 | IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6O. Troan, R. Droms · obsoleted by RFC 8415 | Proposed Standard | December 2003 |
| 3775 | Mobility Support in IPv6D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko · obsoleted by RFC 6275 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3971 | SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)J. Arkko, Ed., J. Kempf, B. Zill, P. Nikander | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4213 | Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and RoutersE. Nordmark, R. Gilligan | Proposed Standard | October 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4423 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) ArchitectureR. Moskowitz, P. Nikander · obsoleted by RFC 9063 | Informational | May 2006 |
| 4555 | IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming Protocol (MOBIKE)P. Eronen | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4852 | IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis - IP Layer 3 FocusJ. Bound, Y. Pouffary, S. Klynsma, T. Chown, D. Green | Informational | April 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 |
| 5340 | OSPF for IPv6R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy, A. Lindem | Proposed Standard | July 2008 |
| 5558 | Virtual Enterprise Traversal (VET)F. Templin, Ed. | Informational | February 2010 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |