| 20 | ASCII format for network interchangeV.G. Cerf | Internet Standard | October 1969 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 2052 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 2782 | Experimental | October 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2132 | DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor ExtensionsS. Alexander, R. Droms | Draft Standard | March 1997 |
| 2136 | Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)P. Vixie, Ed., S. Thomson, Y. Rekhter, J. Bound | Proposed Standard | April 1997 |
| 2181 | Clarifications to the DNS SpecificationR. Elz, R. Bush | Proposed Standard | July 1997 |
| 2535 | Domain Name System Security ExtensionsD. Eastlake 3rd · obsoleted by RFC 4033, RFC 4034, RFC 4035 | Proposed Standard | March 1999 |
| 2671 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 6891 | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2845 | Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)P. Vixie, O. Gudmundsson, D. Eastlake 3rd, B. Wellington · obsoleted by RFC 8945 | Proposed Standard | May 2000 |
| 2930 | Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR)D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 2931 | DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )D. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | September 2000 |
| 3007 | Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic UpdateB. Wellington | Proposed Standard | November 2000 |
| 3492 | Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)A. Costello | Proposed Standard | March 2003 |
| 3629 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau | Internet Standard | November 2003 |
| 3927 | Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local AddressesS. Cheshire, B. Aboba, E. Guttman | Proposed Standard | May 2005 |
| 4033 | DNS Security Introduction and RequirementsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4034 | Resource Records for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4291 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering | Draft Standard | February 2006 |
| 4795 | Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)B. Aboba, D. Thaler, L. Esibov | Informational | January 2007 |
| 4861 | Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, H. Soliman | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 4862 | IPv6 Stateless Address AutoconfigurationS. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei | Draft Standard | September 2007 |
| 5198 | Unicode Format for Network InterchangeJ. Klensin, M. Padlipsky | Proposed Standard | March 2008 |
| 5226 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 8126 | Best Current Practice | May 2008 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5890 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document FrameworkJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 6195 | Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd · obsoleted by RFC 6895 | Best Current Practice | March 2011 |
| 6281 | Understanding Apple's Back to My Mac (BTMM) ServiceS. Cheshire, Z. Zhu, R. Wakikawa, L. Zhang | Informational | June 2011 |
| 6760 | Requirements for a Protocol to Replace the AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol (NBP)S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Informational | February 2013 |
| 6761 | Special-Use Domain NamesS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6763 | DNS-Based Service DiscoveryS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |