| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 889 | Internet Delay ExperimentsD.L. Mills | Informational | December 1983 |
| 896 | Congestion Control in IP/TCP InternetworksJ. Nagle · obsoleted by RFC 7805 | Historic | January 1984 |
| 970 | On Packet Switches With Infinite StorageJ. Nagle | Unknown | December 1985 |
| 1016 | Something a Host Could Do with Source Quench: The Source Quench Introduced Delay (SQuID)W. Prue, J. Postel | Unknown | July 1987 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1254 | Gateway Congestion Control SurveyA. Mankin, K. Ramakrishnan | Informational | August 1991 |
| 1633 | Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an OverviewR. Braden, D. Clark, S. Shenker | Informational | June 1994 |
| 1812 | Requirements for IP Version 4 RoutersF. Baker, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2001 | TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery AlgorithmsW. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 2581 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2140 | TCP Control Block InterdependenceJ. Touch · obsoleted by RFC 9040 | Informational | April 1997 |
| 2309 | Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the InternetB. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang · obsoleted by RFC 7567 | Informational | April 1998 |
| 2357 | IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application ProtocolsA. Mankin, A. Romanow, S. Bradner, V. Paxson | Informational | June 1998 |
| 2414 | Increasing TCP's Initial WindowM. Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 3390 | Experimental | September 1998 |
| 2415 | Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window SizeK. Poduri, K. Nichols | Informational | September 1998 |
| 2416 | When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three BuffersT. Shepard, C. Partridge | Informational | September 1998 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2481 | A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd · obsoleted by RFC 3168 | Experimental | January 1999 |
| 2488 | Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard MechanismsM. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez | Best Current Practice | January 1999 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2884 | Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP NetworksJ. Hadi Salim, U. Ahmed | Informational | July 2000 |
| 2887 | The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data TransferM. Handley, S. Floyd, B. Whetten, R. Kermode, L. Vicisano, M. Luby | Informational | August 2000 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 2998 | A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv NetworksY. Bernet, P. Ford, R. Yavatkar, F. Baker, L. Zhang, M. Speer, R. Braden, B. Davie, J. Wroclawski, E. Felstaine | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3048 | Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data TransferB. Whetten, L. Vicisano, R. Kermode, M. Handley, S. Floyd, M. Luby | Informational | January 2001 |
| 3124 | The Congestion ManagerH. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan | Proposed Standard | June 2001 |
| 3135 | Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to Mitigate Link-Related DegradationsJ. Border, M. Kojo, J. Griner, G. Montenegro, Z. Shelby | Informational | June 2001 |
| 3150 | End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow LinksS. Dawkins, G. Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret | Best Current Practice | July 2001 |
| 3155 | End-to-end Performance Implications of Links with ErrorsS. Dawkins, G. Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret, N. Vaidya | Best Current Practice | August 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3208 | PGM Reliable Transport Protocol SpecificationT. Speakman, J. Crowcroft, J. Gemmell, D. Farinacci, S. Lin, D. Leshchiner, M. Luby, T. Montgomery, L. Rizzo, A. Tweedly, N. Bhaskar, R. Edmonstone, R. Sumanasekera, L. Vicisano | Experimental | December 2001 |
| 3366 | Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)G. Fairhurst, L. Wood | Best Current Practice | September 2002 |
| 3426 | General Architectural and Policy ConsiderationsS. Floyd | Informational | November 2002 |
| 3439 | Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and PhilosophyR. Bush, D. Meyer | Informational | December 2002 |
| 3448 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationM. Handley, S. Floyd, J. Padhye, J. Widmer · obsoleted by RFC 5348 | Proposed Standard | January 2003 |
| 3449 | TCP Performance Implications of Network Path AsymmetryH. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, G. Fairhurst, M. Sooriyabandara | Best Current Practice | December 2002 |
| 3450 | Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol InstantiationM. Luby, J. Gemmell, L. Vicisano, L. Rizzo, J. Crowcroft · obsoleted by RFC 5775 | Experimental | December 2002 |
| 3481 | TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless NetworksH. Inamura, Ed., G. Montenegro, Ed., R. Ludwig, A. Gurtov, F. Khafizov | Best Current Practice | February 2003 |
| 3540 | Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with NoncesN. Spring, D. Wetherall, D. Ely | Historic | June 2003 |
| 3550 | RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time ApplicationsH. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, V. Jacobson | Internet Standard | July 2003 |
| 3649 | HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion WindowsS. Floyd | Experimental | December 2003 |
| 3714 | IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the InternetS. Floyd, Ed., J. Kempf, Ed. | Informational | March 2004 |
| 3738 | Wave and Equation Based Rate Control (WEBRC) Building BlockM. Luby, V. Goyal | Experimental | April 2004 |
| 3742 | Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion WindowsS. Floyd | Experimental | 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 |
| 4336 | Problem Statement for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)S. Floyd, M. Handley, E. Kohler | Informational | March 2006 |
| 4340 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4341 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion ControlS. Floyd, E. Kohler | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4342 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)S. Floyd, E. Kohler, J. Padhye | Proposed Standard | April 2006 |
| 4585 | Extended RTP Profile for Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP)-Based Feedback (RTP/AVPF)J. Ott, S. Wenger, N. Sato, C. Burmeister, J. Rey | Proposed Standard | July 2006 |
| 4614 | A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification DocumentsM. Duke, R. Braden, W. Eddy, E. Blanton · obsoleted by RFC 7414 | Informational | September 2006 |
| 4654 | TCP-Friendly Multicast Congestion Control (TFMCC): Protocol SpecificationJ. Widmer, M. Handley | Experimental | August 2006 |
| 4782 | Quick-Start for TCP and IPS. Floyd, M. Allman, A. Jain, P. Sarolahti | Experimental | January 2007 |
| 4960 | Stream Control Transmission ProtocolR. Stewart, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9260 | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 5033 | Specifying New Congestion Control AlgorithmsS. Floyd, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 9743 | Best Current Practice | August 2007 |
| 5166 | Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control MechanismsS. Floyd, Ed. | Informational | March 2008 |
| 5348 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationS. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, J. Widmer | Proposed Standard | September 2008 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |