| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1123 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 4033 | DNS Security Introduction and RequirementsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4786 | Operation of Anycast ServicesJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist | Best Current Practice | December 2006 |
| 5155 | DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of ExistenceB. Laurie, G. Sisson, R. Arends, D. Blacka | Proposed Standard | March 2008 |
| 5358 | Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector AttacksJ. Damas, F. Neves | Best Current Practice | October 2008 |
| 5405 | Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application DesignersL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst · obsoleted by RFC 8085 | Best Current Practice | November 2008 |
| 5625 | DNS Proxy Implementation GuidelinesR. Bellis | Best Current Practice | August 2009 |
| 5741 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesL. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., IAB · obsoleted by RFC 7841 | Informational | December 2009 |
| 5966 | DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation RequirementsR. Bellis · obsoleted by RFC 7766 | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 6824 | TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple AddressesA. Ford, C. Raiciu, M. Handley, O. Bonaventure · obsoleted by RFC 8684 | Experimental | January 2013 |
| 6891 | Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))J. Damas, M. Graff, P. Vixie | Internet Standard | April 2013 |
| 7230 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and RoutingR. Fielding, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9110, RFC 9112 | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7413 | TCP Fast OpenY. Cheng, J. Chu, S. Radhakrishnan, A. Jain | Experimental | December 2014 |
| 7540 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)M. Belshe, R. Peon, M. Thomson, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9113 | Proposed Standard | May 2015 |