| 904 | Exterior Gateway Protocol formal specificationD.L. Mills | Historic | April 1984 |
| 975 | Autonomous confederationsD.L. Mills | Unknown | February 1986 |
| 1105 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 1163 | Experimental | June 1989 |
| 1126 | Goals and functional requirements for inter-autonomous system routingM. Little | Unknown | October 1989 |
| 1163 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter · obsoleted by RFC 1267 | Historic | June 1990 |
| 1267 | Border Gateway Protocol 3 (BGP-3)K. Lougheed, Y. Rekhter | Historic | October 1991 |
| 1752 | The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation ProtocolS. Bradner, A. Mankin | Proposed Standard | January 1995 |
| 1753 | IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing ArchitectureN. Chiappa | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1771 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, T. Li · obsoleted by RFC 4271 | Draft Standard | March 1995 |
| 1992 | The Nimrod Routing ArchitectureI. Castineyra, N. Chiappa, M. Steenstrup | Informational | August 1996 |
| 2362 | Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol SpecificationD. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy, D. Thaler, S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, P. Sharma, L. Wei · obsoleted by RFC 4601, RFC 5059 | Experimental | June 1998 |
| 2622 | Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)C. Alaettinoglu, C. Villamizar, E. Gerich, D. Kessens, D. Meyer, T. Bates, D. Karrenberg, M. Terpstra | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 2650 | Using RPSL in PracticeD. Meyer, J. Schmitz, C. Orange, M. Prior, C. Alaettinoglu | Informational | August 1999 |
| 2791 | Scalable Routing Design PrinciplesJ. Yu | Informational | July 2000 |
| 3221 | Commentary on Inter-Domain Routing in the InternetG. Huston | Informational | December 2001 |
| 3277 | Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Transient Blackhole AvoidanceD. McPherson | Informational | April 2002 |
| 3345 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Persistent Route Oscillation ConditionD. McPherson, V. Gill, D. Walton, A. Retana | Informational | August 2002 |
| 3618 | Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)B. Fenner, Ed., D. Meyer, Ed. | Experimental | October 2003 |
| 3765 | NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope ControlG. Huston | Informational | April 2004 |
| 3913 | Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol SpecificationD. Thaler | Historic | September 2004 |
| 4116 | IPv4 Multihoming Practices and LimitationsJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist, E. Davies, B. Black, V. Gill | Informational | July 2005 |
| 4204 | Link Management Protocol (LMP)J. Lang, Ed. | Proposed Standard | October 2005 |
| 4271 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, Ed., T. Li, Ed., S. Hares, Ed. | Draft Standard | January 2006 |
| 4364 | BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4593 | Generic Threats to Routing ProtocolsA. Barbir, S. Murphy, Y. Yang | Informational | October 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 |
| 4724 | Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGPS. Sangli, E. Chen, R. Fernando, J. Scudder, Y. Rekhter | Proposed Standard | January 2007 |
| 4760 | Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4T. Bates, R. Chandra, D. Katz, Y. Rekhter | Draft Standard | January 2007 |
| 4893 | BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number SpaceQ. Vohra, E. Chen · obsoleted by RFC 6793 | Proposed Standard | May 2007 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5772 | A Set of Possible Requirements for a Future Routing ArchitectureA. Doria, E. Davies, F. Kastenholz | Historic | February 2010 |