| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2309 | Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the InternetB. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang · obsoleted by RFC 7567 | Informational | April 1998 |
| 2488 | Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard MechanismsM. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez | Best Current Practice | January 1999 |
| 2544 | Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect DevicesS. Bradner, J. McQuaid | Informational | March 1999 |
| 2647 | Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall PerformanceD. Newman | Informational | August 1999 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3611 | RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR)T. Friedman, Ed., R. Caceres, Ed., A. Clark, Ed. | Proposed Standard | November 2003 |
| 5348 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationS. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, J. Widmer | Proposed Standard | September 2008 |
| 5481 | Packet Delay Variation Applicability StatementA. Morton, B. Claise | Informational | March 2009 |
| 5681 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, E. Blanton | Draft Standard | September 2009 |
| 6297 | A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport ProtocolsM. Welzl, D. Ros | Informational | June 2011 |
| 6817 | Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)S. Shalunov, G. Hazel, J. Iyengar, M. Kuehlewind | Experimental | December 2012 |
| 7141 | Byte and Packet Congestion NotificationB. Briscoe, J. Manner | Best Current Practice | February 2014 |
| 7567 | IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue ManagementF. Baker, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. | Best Current Practice | July 2015 |
| 7679 | A One-Way Delay Metric for IP Performance Metrics (IPPM)G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas, A. Morton, Ed. | Internet Standard | January 2016 |
| 7680 | A One-Way Loss Metric for IP Performance Metrics (IPPM)G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas, A. Morton, Ed. | Internet Standard | January 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |