| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2231 | MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and ContinuationsN. Freed, K. Moore | Proposed Standard | November 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 |
| 3629 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau | Internet Standard | November 2003 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 4287 | The Atom Syndication FormatM. Nottingham, Ed., R. Sayre, Ed. | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4288 | Media Type Specifications and Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin · obsoleted by RFC 6838 | Best Current Practice | December 2005 |
| 4919 | IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs): Overview, Assumptions, Problem Statement, and GoalsN. Kushalnagar, G. Montenegro, C. Schumacher | Informational | August 2007 |
| 5226 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 8126 | Best Current Practice | May 2008 |
| 5234 | Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNFD. Crocker, Ed., P. Overell | Internet Standard | January 2008 |
| 5646 | Tags for Identifying LanguagesA. Phillips, Ed., M. Davis, Ed. | Best Current Practice | September 2009 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5785 | Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)M. Nottingham, E. Hammer-Lahav · obsoleted by RFC 8615 | Proposed Standard | April 2010 |
| 5987 | Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field ParametersJ. Reschke · obsoleted by RFC 8187 | Historic | August 2010 |
| 5988 | Web LinkingM. Nottingham · obsoleted by RFC 8288 | Proposed Standard | October 2010 |
| 6454 | The Web Origin ConceptA. Barth | Proposed Standard | December 2011 |
| 6570 | URI TemplateJ. Gregorio, R. Fielding, M. Hadley, M. Nottingham, D. Orchard | Proposed Standard | March 2012 |