| 2014 | IRTF Research Group Guidelines and ProceduresA. Weinrib, J. Postel | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2418 | IETF Working Group Guidelines and ProceduresS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | September 1998 |
| 2850 | Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)Internet Architecture Board, B. Carpenter, Ed. | Best Current Practice | May 2000 |
| 2860 | Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers AuthorityB. Carpenter, F. Baker, M. Roberts | Informational | June 2000 |
| 2870 | Root Name Server Operational RequirementsR. Bush, D. Karrenberg, M. Kosters, R. Plzak · obsoleted by RFC 7720 | Best Current Practice | June 2000 |
| 3172 | Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")G. Huston, Ed. | Best Current Practice | September 2001 |
| 3307 | Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast AddressesB. Haberman | Proposed Standard | September 2002 |
| 3777 | IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall CommitteesJ. Galvin, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 7437 | Best Current Practice | June 2004 |
| 3935 | A Mission Statement for the IETFH. Alvestrand | Best Current Practice | October 2004 |
| 4071 | Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)R. Austein, Ed., B. Wijnen, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8711 | Best Current Practice | April 2005 |
| 4193 | Unique Local IPv6 Unicast AddressesR. Hinden, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 2005 |
| 5226 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 8126 | Best Current Practice | May 2008 |
| 5771 | IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address AssignmentsM. Cotton, L. Vegoda, D. Meyer | Best Current Practice | March 2010 |
| 6220 | Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry OperatorsD. McPherson, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed., J. Klensin, Ed., G. Huston, Ed., Internet Architecture Board · obsoleted by RFC 8722 | Informational | April 2011 |
| 6761 | Special-Use Domain NamesS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6793 | BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number SpaceQ. Vohra, E. Chen | Proposed Standard | December 2012 |
| 6852 | Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for StandardsR. Housley, S. Mills, J. Jaffe, B. Aboba, L. St.Amour | Informational | January 2013 |
| 6890 | Special-Purpose IP Address RegistriesM. Cotton, L. Vegoda, R. Bonica, Ed., B. Haberman | Best Current Practice | April 2013 |
| 7020 | The Internet Numbers Registry SystemR. Housley, J. Curran, G. Huston, D. Conrad | Informational | August 2013 |
| 7249 | Internet Numbers RegistriesR. Housley | Informational | May 2014 |
| 7282 | On Consensus and Humming in the IETFP. Resnick | Informational | June 2014 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |