| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 3022 | Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)P. Srisuresh, K. Egevang | Informational | January 2001 |
| 3688 | The IETF XML RegistryM. Mealling | Best Current Practice | January 2004 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 4034 | Resource Records for the DNS Security ExtensionsR. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4122 | A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN NamespaceP. Leach, M. Mealling, R. Salz · obsoleted by RFC 9562 | Proposed Standard | July 2005 |
| 4279 | Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)P. Eronen, Ed., H. Tschofenig, Ed. | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4340 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4632 | Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation PlanV. Fuller, T. Li | Best Current Practice | August 2006 |
| 4648 | The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data EncodingsS. Josefsson | Proposed Standard | October 2006 |
| 4732 | Internet Denial-of-Service ConsiderationsM. Handley, Ed., E. Rescorla, Ed., IAB | Informational | December 2006 |
| 4787 | Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDPF. Audet, Ed., C. Jennings | Best Current Practice | January 2007 |
| 4960 | Stream Control Transmission ProtocolR. Stewart, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9260 | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 4987 | TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common MitigationsW. Eddy | Informational | August 2007 |
| 5246 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2T. Dierks, E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 8446, RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2008 |
| 5280 | Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) ProfileD. Cooper, S. Santesson, S. Farrell, S. Boeyen, R. Housley, W. Polk | Proposed Standard | May 2008 |
| 5925 | The TCP Authentication OptionJ. Touch, A. Mankin, R. Bonica | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6052 | IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 TranslatorsC. Bao, C. Huitema, M. Bagnulo, M. Boucadair, X. Li | Proposed Standard | October 2010 |
| 6066 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension DefinitionsD. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | January 2011 |
| 6125 | Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS)P. Saint-Andre, J. Hodges · obsoleted by RFC 9525 | Proposed Standard | March 2011 |
| 6146 | Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 ServersM. Bagnulo, P. Matthews, I. van Beijnum | Proposed Standard | April 2011 |
| 6234 | US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)D. Eastlake 3rd, T. Hansen | Informational | May 2011 |
| 6296 | IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix TranslationM. Wasserman, F. Baker | Experimental | June 2011 |
| 6347 | Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2E. Rescorla, N. Modadugu · obsoleted by RFC 9147 | Proposed Standard | January 2012 |
| 6724 | Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)D. Thaler, Ed., R. Draves, A. Matsumoto, T. Chown | Proposed Standard | September 2012 |
| 6838 | Media Type Specifications and Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, T. Hansen | Best Current Practice | January 2013 |
| 6887 | Port Control Protocol (PCP)D. Wing, Ed., S. Cheshire, M. Boucadair, R. Penno, P. Selkirk | Proposed Standard | April 2013 |
| 6888 | Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)S. Perreault, Ed., I. Yamagata, S. Miyakawa, A. Nakagawa, H. Ashida | Best Current Practice | April 2013 |
| 6991 | Common YANG Data TypesJ. Schoenwaelder, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9911 | Proposed Standard | July 2013 |
| 7030 | Enrollment over Secure TransportM. Pritikin, Ed., P. Yee, Ed., D. Harkins, Ed. | Proposed Standard | October 2013 |
| 7049 | Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)C. Bormann, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 8949 | Proposed Standard | October 2013 |
| 7250 | Using Raw Public Keys in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)P. Wouters, Ed., H. Tschofenig, Ed., J. Gilmore, S. Weiler, T. Kivinen | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7252 | The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)Z. Shelby, K. Hartke, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7413 | TCP Fast OpenY. Cheng, J. Chu, S. Radhakrishnan, A. Jain | Experimental | December 2014 |
| 7452 | Architectural Considerations in Smart Object NetworkingH. Tschofenig, J. Arkko, D. Thaler, D. McPherson | Informational | March 2015 |
| 7525 | Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)Y. Sheffer, R. Holz, P. Saint-Andre · obsoleted by RFC 9325 | Best Current Practice | May 2015 |
| 7589 | Using the NETCONF Protocol over Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Mutual X.509 AuthenticationM. Badra, A. Luchuk, J. Schoenwaelder | Proposed Standard | June 2015 |
| 7641 | Observing Resources in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)K. Hartke | Proposed Standard | September 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7858 | Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)Z. Hu, L. Zhu, J. Heidemann, A. Mankin, D. Wessels, P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 7918 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) False StartA. Langley, N. Modadugu, B. Moeller | Informational | August 2016 |
| 7924 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) Cached Information ExtensionS. Santesson, H. Tschofenig | Proposed Standard | July 2016 |
| 7950 | The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling LanguageM. Bjorklund, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 2016 |
| 7951 | JSON Encoding of Data Modeled with YANGL. Lhotka | Proposed Standard | August 2016 |
| 7959 | Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)C. Bormann, Z. Shelby, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 2016 |
| 8085 | UDP Usage GuidelinesL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst, G. Shepherd | Best Current Practice | March 2017 |
| 8126 | Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsM. Cotton, B. Leiba, T. Narten | Best Current Practice | June 2017 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8200 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden | Internet Standard | July 2017 |
| 8305 | Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using ConcurrencyD. Schinazi, T. Pauly | Proposed Standard | December 2017 |
| 8323 | CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) over TCP, TLS, and WebSocketsC. Bormann, S. Lemay, H. Tschofenig, K. Hartke, B. Silverajan, B. Raymor, Ed. | Proposed Standard | February 2018 |
| 8340 | YANG Tree DiagramsM. Bjorklund, L. Berger, Ed. | Best Current Practice | March 2018 |
| 8446 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2018 |
| 8484 | DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)P. Hoffman, P. McManus | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |
| 8489 | Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)M. Petit-Huguenin, G. Salgueiro, J. Rosenberg, D. Wing, R. Mahy, P. Matthews | Proposed Standard | February 2020 |
| 8499 | DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 9499 | Best Current Practice | January 2019 |
| 8612 | DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) RequirementsA. Mortensen, T. Reddy, R. Moskowitz | Informational | May 2019 |
| 8615 | Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)M. Nottingham | Proposed Standard | May 2019 |
| 8768 | Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Hop-Limit OptionM. Boucadair, T. Reddy.K, J. Shallow | Proposed Standard | March 2020 |
| 8783 | Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Data Channel SpecificationM. Boucadair, Ed., T. Reddy.K, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2020 |