| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 822 | STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESD. Crocker · obsoleted by RFC 2822 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 1321 | The MD5 Message-Digest AlgorithmR. Rivest | Informational | April 1992 |
| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2104 | HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message AuthenticationH. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti | Informational | February 1997 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2367 | PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2D. McDonald, C. Metz, B. Phan | Informational | July 1998 |
| 2394 | IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATER. Pereira | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2395 | IP Payload Compression Using LZSR. Friend, R. Monsour | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2401 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, R. Atkinson · obsoleted by RFC 4301 | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2403 | The Use of HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AHC. Madson, R. Glenn | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2404 | The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AHC. Madson, R. Glenn | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2405 | The ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm With Explicit IVC. Madson, N. Doraswamy | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2407 | The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMPD. Piper · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2408 | Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)D. Maughan, M. Schertler, M. Schneider, J. Turner · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2409 | The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)D. Harkins, D. Carrel · obsoleted by RFC 4306 | Historic | November 1998 |
| 2410 | The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsecR. Glenn, S. Kent | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2412 | The OAKLEY Key Determination ProtocolH. Orman | Informational | November 1998 |
| 2451 | The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher AlgorithmsR. Pereira, R. Adams | Proposed Standard | November 1998 |
| 2474 | Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 HeadersK. Nichols, S. Blake, F. Baker, D. Black | Proposed Standard | December 1998 |
| 2475 | An Architecture for Differentiated ServicesS. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss | Informational | December 1998 |
| 2522 | Photuris: Session-Key Management ProtocolP. Karn, W. Simpson | Experimental | March 1999 |
| 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 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2983 | Differentiated Services and TunnelsD. Black | Informational | October 2000 |
| 3051 | IP Payload Compression Using ITU-T V.44 Packet MethodJ. Heath, J. Border | Informational | January 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3173 | IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)A. Shacham, B. Monsour, R. Pereira, M. Thomas | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3439 | Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and PhilosophyR. Bush, D. Meyer | Informational | December 2002 |
| 3447 | Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.1J. Jonsson, B. Kaliski · obsoleted by RFC 8017 | Informational | February 2003 |
| 3526 | More Modular Exponential (MODP) Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)T. Kivinen, M. Kojo | Proposed Standard | May 2003 |
| 3566 | The AES-XCBC-MAC-96 Algorithm and Its Use With IPsecS. Frankel, H. Herbert | Proposed Standard | September 2003 |
| 3602 | The AES-CBC Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with IPsecS. Frankel, R. Glenn, S. Kelly | Proposed Standard | September 2003 |
| 3686 | Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Counter Mode With IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)R. Housley | Proposed Standard | January 2004 |
| 3715 | IPsec-Network Address Translation (NAT) Compatibility RequirementsB. Aboba, W. Dixon | Informational | March 2004 |
| 3748 | Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)B. Aboba, L. Blunk, J. Vollbrecht, J. Carlson, H. Levkowetz, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3775 | Mobility Support in IPv6D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko · obsoleted by RFC 6275 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3810 | Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6R. Vida, Ed., L. Costa, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9777 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3948 | UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP PacketsA. Huttunen, B. Swander, V. Volpe, L. DiBurro, M. Stenberg | Proposed Standard | January 2005 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 4086 | Randomness Requirements for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Schiller, S. Crocker | Best Current Practice | June 2005 |
| 4282 | The Network Access IdentifierB. Aboba, M. Beadles, J. Arkko, P. Eronen · obsoleted by RFC 7542 | Proposed Standard | December 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 |
| 4302 | IP Authentication HeaderS. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4303 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4306 | Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) ProtocolC. Kaufman, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5996 | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4307 | Cryptographic Algorithms for Use in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)J. Schiller · obsoleted by RFC 8247 | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4434 | The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE)P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4478 | Repeated Authentication in Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) ProtocolY. Nir | Experimental | April 2006 |
| 4555 | IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming Protocol (MOBIKE)P. Eronen | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4615 | The Advanced Encryption Standard-Cipher-based Message Authentication Code-Pseudo-Random Function-128 (AES-CMAC-PRF-128) Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE)J. Song, R. Poovendran, J. Lee, T. Iwata | Proposed Standard | August 2006 |
| 4718 | IKEv2 Clarifications and Implementation GuidelinesP. Eronen, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 5996 | Informational | October 2006 |
| 5280 | Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) ProfileD. Cooper, S. Santesson, S. Farrell, S. Boeyen, R. Housley, W. Polk | Proposed Standard | May 2008 |
| 5282 | Using Authenticated Encryption Algorithms with the Encrypted Payload of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) ProtocolD. Black, D. McGrew | Proposed Standard | August 2008 |
| 5322 | Internet Message FormatP. Resnick, Ed. | Draft Standard | October 2008 |
| 5335 | Internationalized Email HeadersA. Yang, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 6532 | Experimental | September 2008 |
| 5739 | IPv6 Configuration in Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)P. Eronen, J. Laganier, C. Madson | Experimental | February 2010 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5857 | IKEv2 Extensions to Support Robust Header Compression over IPsecE. Ertekin, C. Christou, R. Jasani, T. Kivinen, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | May 2010 |
| 5890 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document FrameworkJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |