| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 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 |
| 3156 | MIME Security with OpenPGPM. Elkins, D. Del Torto, R. Levien, T. Roessler | Proposed Standard | August 2001 |
| 3230 | Instance Digests in HTTPJ. Mogul, A. Van Hoff · obsoleted by RFC 9530 | Proposed Standard | January 2002 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 3987 | Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)M. Duerst, M. Suignard | Proposed Standard | January 2005 |
| 4732 | Internet Denial-of-Service ConsiderationsM. Handley, Ed., E. Rescorla, Ed., IAB | Informational | December 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 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5751 | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message SpecificationB. Ramsdell, S. Turner · obsoleted by RFC 8551 | Proposed Standard | January 2010 |
| 5843 | Additional Hash Algorithms for HTTP Instance DigestsA. Bryan | Informational | April 2010 |
| 5854 | The Metalink Download Description FormatA. Bryan, T. Tsujikawa, N. McNab, P. Poeml | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 5988 | Web LinkingM. Nottingham · obsoleted by RFC 8288 | Proposed Standard | October 2010 |