| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceV. Jacobson, R. Braden, D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 7323 | Proposed Standard | May 1992 |
| 1701 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina | Informational | October 1994 |
| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2208 | Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on DeploymentA. Mankin, Ed., F. Baker, B. Braden, S. Bradner, M. O'Dell, A. Romanow, A. Weinrib, L. Zhang | Informational | September 1997 |
| 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 |
| 2581 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens · obsoleted by RFC 5681 | Proposed Standard | April 1999 |
| 2637 | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)K. Hamzeh, G. Pall, W. Verthein, J. Taarud, W. Little, G. Zorn | Informational | July 1999 |
| 2661 | Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"W. Townsley, A. Valencia, A. Rubens, G. Pall, G. Zorn, B. Palter | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2784 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)D. Farinacci, T. Li, S. Hanks, D. Meyer, P. Traina | Proposed Standard | March 2000 |
| 2861 | TCP Congestion Window ValidationM. Handley, J. Padhye, S. Floyd · obsoleted by RFC 7661 | Historic | June 2000 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 2988 | Computing TCP's Retransmission TimerV. Paxson, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 6298 | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 2990 | Next Steps for the IP QoS ArchitectureG. Huston | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3031 | Multiprotocol Label Switching ArchitectureE. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, R. Callon | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3032 | MPLS Label Stack EncodingE. Rosen, D. Tappan, G. Fedorkow, Y. Rekhter, D. Farinacci, T. Li, A. Conta | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3260 | New Terminology and Clarifications for DiffservD. Grossman | Informational | April 2002 |
| 3517 | A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCPE. Blanton, M. Allman, K. Fall, L. Wang · obsoleted by RFC 6675 | Proposed Standard | April 2003 |
| 3540 | Robust Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with NoncesN. Spring, D. Wetherall, D. Ely | Historic | June 2003 |
| 3662 | A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) for Differentiated ServicesR. Bless, K. Nichols, K. Wehrle · obsoleted by RFC 8622 | Informational | December 2003 |
| 3714 | IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the InternetS. Floyd, Ed., J. Kempf, Ed. | Informational | March 2004 |
| 3742 | Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion WindowsS. Floyd | Experimental | March 2004 |
| 3985 | Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) ArchitectureS. Bryant, Ed., P. Pate, Ed. | Informational | March 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 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 |
| 4553 | Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)A. Vainshtein, Ed., YJ. Stein, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 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 |
| 4782 | Quick-Start for TCP and IPS. Floyd, M. Allman, A. Jain, P. Sarolahti | Experimental | January 2007 |
| 4828 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): The Small-Packet (SP) VariantS. Floyd, E. Kohler | Experimental | April 2007 |
| 4948 | Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006L. Andersson, E. Davies, L. Zhang | Informational | August 2007 |
| 5033 | Specifying New Congestion Control AlgorithmsS. Floyd, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 9743 | Best Current Practice | August 2007 |
| 5086 | Structure-Aware Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) Circuit Emulation Service over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN)A. Vainshtein, Ed., I. Sasson, E. Metz, T. Frost, P. Pate | Informational | December 2007 |
| 5087 | Time Division Multiplexing over IP (TDMoIP)Y(J). Stein, R. Shashoua, R. Insler, M. Anavi | Informational | December 2007 |
| 5129 | Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLSB. Davie, B. Briscoe, J. Tay | Proposed Standard | January 2008 |
| 5290 | Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort TrafficS. Floyd, M. Allman | Informational | July 2008 |
| 5348 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationS. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, J. Widmer | Proposed Standard | September 2008 |
| 5405 | Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application DesignersL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst · obsoleted by RFC 8085 | Best Current Practice | November 2008 |
| 5622 | Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion ID 4: TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Small Packets (TFRC-SP)S. Floyd, E. Kohler | Experimental | August 2009 |
| 5681 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, E. Blanton | Draft Standard | September 2009 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5783 | Congestion Control in the RFC SeriesM. Welzl, W. Eddy | Informational | February 2010 |
| 6040 | Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion NotificationB. Briscoe | Proposed Standard | November 2010 |