| 2131 | Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolR. Droms | Draft Standard | March 1997 |
| 2710 | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 1999 |
| 3376 | Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3B. Cain, S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan · obsoleted by RFC 9776 | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3569 | An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)S. Bhattacharyya, Ed. | Informational | July 2003 |
| 3819 | Advice for Internet Subnetwork DesignersP. Karn, Ed., C. Bormann, G. Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood | Best Current Practice | July 2004 |
| 4762 | Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) SignalingM. Lasserre, Ed., V. Kompella, Ed. | Proposed Standard | January 2007 |
| 6040 | Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion NotificationB. Briscoe | Proposed Standard | November 2010 |
| 6513 | Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNsE. Rosen, Ed., R. Aggarwal, Ed. | Proposed Standard | February 2012 |
| 6831 | The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) for Multicast EnvironmentsD. Farinacci, D. Meyer, J. Zwiebel, S. Venaas | Experimental | January 2013 |
| 7117 | Multicast in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)R. Aggarwal, Ed., Y. Kamite, L. Fang, Y. Rekhter, C. Kodeboniya | Proposed Standard | February 2014 |
| 7348 | Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 NetworksM. Mahalingam, D. Dutt, K. Duda, P. Agarwal, L. Kreeger, T. Sridhar, M. Bursell, C. Wright | Informational | August 2014 |
| 7364 | Problem Statement: Overlays for Network VirtualizationT. Narten, Ed., E. Gray, Ed., D. Black, L. Fang, L. Kreeger, M. Napierala | Informational | October 2014 |
| 7365 | Framework for Data Center (DC) Network VirtualizationM. Lasserre, F. Balus, T. Morin, N. Bitar, Y. Rekhter | Informational | October 2014 |
| 7637 | NVGRE: Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing EncapsulationP. Garg, Ed., Y. Wang, Ed. | Informational | September 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 8014 | An Architecture for Data-Center Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3)D. Black, J. Hudson, L. Kreeger, M. Lasserre, T. Narten | Informational | December 2016 |
| 8279 | Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)IJ. Wijnands, Ed., E. Rosen, Ed., A. Dolganow, T. Przygienda, S. Aldrin | Proposed Standard | November 2017 |