| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 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 |
| 3107 | Carrying Label Information in BGP-4Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen · obsoleted by RFC 8277 | Proposed Standard | May 2001 |
| 3209 | RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP TunnelsD. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, V. Srinivasan, G. Swallow | Proposed Standard | December 2001 |
| 4201 | Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, L. Berger | Proposed Standard | October 2005 |
| 4271 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, Ed., T. Li, Ed., S. Hares, Ed. | Draft Standard | January 2006 |
| 4379 | Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane FailuresK. Kompella, G. Swallow · obsoleted by RFC 8029 | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4447 | Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance Using the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)L. Martini, Ed., E. Rosen, N. El-Aawar, T. Smith, G. Heron · obsoleted by RFC 8077 | Proposed Standard | April 2006 |
| 4875 | Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs)R. Aggarwal, Ed., D. Papadimitriou, Ed., S. Yasukawa, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2007 |
| 5036 | LDP SpecificationL. Andersson, Ed., I. Minei, Ed., B. Thomas, Ed. | Draft Standard | October 2007 |
| 5420 | Encoding of Attributes for MPLS LSP Establishment Using Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)A. Farrel, Ed., D. Papadimitriou, JP. Vasseur, A. Ayyangar | Proposed Standard | February 2009 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5884 | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)R. Aggarwal, K. Kompella, T. Nadeau, G. Swallow | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6388 | Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched PathsIJ. Wijnands, Ed., I. Minei, Ed., K. Kompella, B. Thomas | Proposed Standard | November 2011 |
| 6391 | Flow-Aware Transport of Pseudowires over an MPLS Packet Switched NetworkS. Bryant, Ed., C. Filsfils, U. Drafz, V. Kompella, J. Regan, S. Amante | Proposed Standard | November 2011 |