| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 925 | Multi-LAN address resolutionJ. Postel | Unknown | October 1984 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1546 | Host Anycasting ServiceC. Partridge, T. Mendez, W. Milliken | Informational | November 1993 |
| 1812 | Requirements for IP Version 4 RoutersF. Baker, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 1918 | Address Allocation for Private InternetsY. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear | Best Current Practice | February 1996 |
| 1958 | Architectural Principles of the InternetB. Carpenter, Ed. | Informational | June 1996 |
| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 2101 | IPv4 Address Behaviour TodayB. Carpenter, J. Crowcroft, Y. Rekhter | Informational | February 1997 |
| 2461 | Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson · obsoleted by RFC 4861 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2491 | IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA) networksG. Armitage, P. Schulter, M. Jork, G. Harter | Proposed Standard | January 1999 |
| 2644 | Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in RoutersD. Senie | Best Current Practice | August 1999 |
| 2767 | Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)K. Tsuchiya, H. Higuchi, Y. Atarashi · obsoleted by RFC 6535 | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2775 | Internet TransparencyB. Carpenter | Informational | February 2000 |
| 2923 | TCP Problems with Path MTU DiscoveryK. Lahey | Informational | September 2000 |
| 2979 | Behavior of and Requirements for Internet FirewallsN. Freed | Informational | October 2000 |
| 2991 | Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop SelectionD. Thaler, C. Hopps | Informational | November 2000 |
| 2993 | Architectural Implications of NATT. Hain | Informational | November 2000 |
| 3021 | Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point LinksA. Retana, R. White, V. Fuller, D. McPherson | Proposed Standard | December 2000 |
| 3069 | VLAN Aggregation for Efficient IP Address AllocationD. McPherson, B. Dykes | Informational | February 2001 |
| 3077 | A Link-Layer Tunneling Mechanism for Unidirectional LinksE. Duros, W. Dabbous, H. Izumiyama, N. Fujii, Y. Zhang | Proposed Standard | March 2001 |
| 3338 | Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA)S. Lee, M-K. Shin, Y-J. Kim, E. Nordmark, A. Durand · obsoleted by RFC 6535 | Experimental | October 2002 |
| 3550 | RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time ApplicationsH. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, V. Jacobson | Internet Standard | July 2003 |
| 3552 | Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security ConsiderationsE. Rescorla, B. Korver | Best Current Practice | July 2003 |
| 3618 | Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)B. Fenner, Ed., D. Meyer, Ed. | Experimental | October 2003 |
| 3775 | Mobility Support in IPv6D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko · obsoleted by RFC 6275 | Proposed Standard | June 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 |
| 3927 | Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local AddressesS. Cheshire, B. Aboba, E. Guttman | Proposed Standard | May 2005 |
| 3972 | Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)T. Aura | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4007 | IPv6 Scoped Address ArchitectureS. Deering, B. Haberman, T. Jinmei, E. Nordmark, B. Zill | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4380 | Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)C. Huitema | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4423 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) ArchitectureR. Moskowitz, P. Nikander · obsoleted by RFC 9063 | Informational | May 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 |
| 4786 | Operation of Anycast ServicesJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist | Best Current Practice | December 2006 |
| 4821 | Packetization Layer Path MTU DiscoveryM. Mathis, J. Heffner | Proposed Standard | March 2007 |
| 4861 | Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 4890 | Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in FirewallsE. Davies, J. Mohacsi | Informational | May 2007 |
| 4903 | Multi-Link Subnet IssuesD. Thaler | Informational | June 2007 |
| 4948 | Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006L. Andersson, E. Davies, L. Zhang | Informational | August 2007 |
| 5213 | Proxy Mobile IPv6S. Gundavelli, Ed., K. Leung, V. Devarapalli, K. Chowdhury, B. Patil | Proposed Standard | August 2008 |
| 5218 | What Makes for a Successful Protocol?D. Thaler, B. Aboba | Informational | July 2008 |
| 5694 | Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Architecture: Definition, Taxonomies, Examples, and ApplicabilityG. Camarillo, Ed., IAB | Informational | November 2009 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |