| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2048 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 4288, RFC 4289 | Best Current Practice | 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 |
| 2978 | IANA Charset Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Postel | Best Current Practice | October 2000 |
| 3023 | XML Media TypesM. Murata, S. St. Laurent, D. Kohn · obsoleted by RFC 7303 | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3629 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau | Internet Standard | November 2003 |
| 3979 | Intellectual Property Rights in IETF TechnologyS. Bradner, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8179 | Best Current Practice | March 2005 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 4288 | Media Type Specifications and Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin · obsoleted by RFC 6838 | Best Current Practice | December 2005 |
| 4855 | Media Type Registration of RTP Payload FormatsS. Casner | Proposed Standard | February 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 |
| 5378 | Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF TrustS. Bradner, Ed., J. Contreras, Ed. | Best Current Practice | November 2008 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5987 | Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field ParametersJ. Reschke · obsoleted by RFC 8187 | Historic | August 2010 |
| 6532 | Internationalized Email HeadersA. Yang, S. Steele, N. Freed | Proposed Standard | February 2012 |
| 6648 | Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application ProtocolsP. Saint-Andre, D. Crocker, M. Nottingham | Best Current Practice | June 2012 |
| 6657 | Update to MIME regarding "charset" Parameter Handling in Textual Media TypesA. Melnikov, J. Reschke | Proposed Standard | July 2012 |
| 6839 | Additional Media Type Structured Syntax SuffixesT. Hansen, A. Melnikov | Informational | January 2013 |