| 10029 | DNS Multiple QTYPEsR. Bellis | Proposed Standard | July 2026 |
| 10001 | Operational Guidelines for DNS Transport in Mixed IPv4/IPv6 EnvironmentsMomoka, T. Fiebig | Best Current Practice | August 2026 |
| 9824 | Compact Denial of Existence in DNSSECS. Huque, C. Elmerot, O. Gudmundsson | Proposed Standard | September 2025 |
| 9715 | IP Fragmentation Avoidance in DNS over UDPK. Fujiwara, P. Vixie | Informational | January 2025 |
| 9664 | An EDNS(0) Option to Negotiate Leases on DNS UpdatesS. Cheshire, T. Lemon | Proposed Standard | June 2025 |
| 9660 | The DNS Zone Version (ZONEVERSION) OptionH. Salgado, M. Vergara, D. Wessels | Proposed Standard | October 2024 |
| 9609 | Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming QueriesP. Koch, M. Larson, P. Hoffman | Best Current Practice | February 2025 |
| 9567 | DNS Error ReportingR. Arends, M. Larson | Proposed Standard | April 2024 |
| 9520 | Negative Caching of DNS Resolution FailuresD. Wessels, W. Carroll, M. Thomas | Proposed Standard | December 2023 |
| 9499 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, K. Fujiwara | Best Current Practice | March 2024 |
| 9471 | DNS Glue Requirements in Referral ResponsesM. Andrews, S. Huque, P. Wouters, D. Wessels | Proposed Standard | September 2023 |
| 9413 | Maintaining Robust ProtocolsM. Thomson, D. Schinazi | Informational | June 2023 |
| 9250 | DNS over Dedicated QUIC ConnectionsC. Huitema, S. Dickinson, A. Mankin | Proposed Standard | May 2022 |
| 9210 | DNS Transport over TCP - Operational RequirementsJ. Kristoff, D. Wessels | Best Current Practice | March 2022 |
| 9170 | Long-Term Viability of Protocol Extension MechanismsM. Thomson, T. Pauly | Informational | December 2021 |
| 9103 | DNS Zone Transfer over TLSW. Toorop, S. Dickinson, S. Sahib, P. Aras, A. Mankin | Proposed Standard | August 2021 |
| 9076 | DNS Privacy ConsiderationsT. Wicinski, Ed. | Informational | July 2021 |
| 8914 | Extended DNS ErrorsW. Kumari, E. Hunt, R. Arends, W. Hardaker, D. Lawrence | Proposed Standard | October 2020 |
| 8906 | A Common Operational Problem in DNS Servers: Failure to CommunicateM. Andrews, R. Bellis | Best Current Practice | September 2020 |
| 8767 | Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS ResiliencyD. Lawrence, W. Kumari, P. Sood | Proposed Standard | March 2020 |
| 8764 | Apple's DNS Long-Lived Queries ProtocolS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Informational | June 2020 |
| 8618 | Compacted-DNS (C-DNS): A Format for DNS Packet CaptureJ. Dickinson, J. Hague, S. Dickinson, T. Manderson, J. Bond | Proposed Standard | September 2019 |
| 8572 | Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)K. Watsen, I. Farrer, M. Abrahamsson | Proposed Standard | April 2019 |
| 8504 | IPv6 Node RequirementsT. Chown, J. Loughney, T. Winters | Best Current Practice | January 2019 |
| 8499 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 9499 | Best Current Practice | January 2019 |
| 8490 | DNS Stateful OperationsR. Bellis, S. Cheshire, J. Dickinson, S. Dickinson, T. Lemon, T. Pusateri | Proposed Standard | March 2019 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)P. Hoffman, P. McManus | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |
| 8483 | Yeti DNS TestbedL. Song, Ed., D. Liu, P. Vixie, A. Kato, S. Kerr | Informational | October 2018 |
| 8324 | DNS Privacy, Authorization, Special Uses, Encoding, Characters, Matching, and Root Structure: Time for Another Look?J. Klensin | Informational | February 2018 |
| 8165 | Design Considerations for Metadata InsertionT. Hardie | Informational | May 2017 |
| 8145 | Signaling Trust Anchor Knowledge in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)D. Wessels, W. Kumari, P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | April 2017 |
| 8109 | Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming QueriesP. Koch, M. Larson, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 9609 | Best Current Practice | March 2017 |
| 8094 | DNS over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)T. Reddy, D. Wing, P. Patil | Experimental | February 2017 |
| 7901 | CHAIN Query Requests in DNSP. Wouters | Experimental | June 2016 |
| 7873 | Domain Name System (DNS) CookiesD. Eastlake 3rd, M. Andrews | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 7871 | Client Subnet in DNS QueriesC. Contavalli, W. van der Gaast, D. Lawrence, W. Kumari | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7830 | The EDNS(0) Padding OptionA. Mayrhofer | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 7828 | The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 OptionP. Wouters, J. Abley, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis | Proposed Standard | April 2016 |
| 7766 | DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation RequirementsJ. Dickinson, S. Dickinson, R. Bellis, A. Mankin, D. Wessels | Proposed Standard | March 2016 |
| 7720 | DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment RequirementsM. Blanchet, L-J. Liman | Best Current Practice | December 2015 |
| 7719 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 8499 | Informational | December 2015 |
| 7314 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) EXPIRE OptionM. Andrews | Experimental | July 2014 |
| 7208 | Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1S. Kitterman | Proposed Standard | April 2014 |
| 7108 | A Summary of Various Mechanisms Deployed at L-Root for the Identification of Anycast NodesJ. Abley, T. Manderson | Informational | January 2014 |
| 7051 | Analysis of Solution Proposals for Hosts to Learn NAT64 PrefixJ. Korhonen, Ed., T. Savolainen, Ed. | Informational | November 2013 |
| 6975 | Signaling Cryptographic Algorithm Understanding in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)S. Crocker, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | July 2013 |
| 6950 | Architectural Considerations on Application Features in the DNSJ. Peterson, O. Kolkman, H. Tschofenig, B. Aboba | Informational | October 2013 |
| 6895 | Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd | Best Current Practice | April 2013 |