| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 792 | Internet Control Message ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1191 | Path MTU discoveryJ. Mogul, S. Deering | Draft Standard | November 1990 |
| 1812 | Requirements for IP Version 4 RoutersF. Baker, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 1858 | Security Considerations for IP Fragment FilteringG. Ziemba, D. Reed, P. Traina | Informational | October 1995 |
| 1981 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul · obsoleted by RFC 8201 | Draft Standard | August 1996 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2328 | OSPF Version 2J. Moy | Internet Standard | April 1998 |
| 2460 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden · obsoleted by RFC 8200 | Draft Standard | December 1998 |
| 2473 | Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering | Proposed Standard | December 1998 |
| 2784 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)D. Farinacci, T. Li, S. Hanks, D. Meyer, P. Traina | Proposed Standard | March 2000 |
| 3128 | Protection Against a Variant of the Tiny Fragment Attack (RFC 1858)I. Miller | Informational | June 2001 |
| 4340 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | March 2006 |
| 4443 | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering, M. Gupta, Ed. | Internet Standard | March 2006 |
| 4459 | MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-Network TunnelingP. Savola | Informational | April 2006 |
| 4821 | Packetization Layer Path MTU DiscoveryM. Mathis, J. Heffner | Proposed Standard | March 2007 |
| 4890 | Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in FirewallsE. Davies, J. Mohacsi | Informational | May 2007 |
| 4960 | Stream Control Transmission ProtocolR. Stewart, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9260 | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 4963 | IPv4 Reassembly Errors at High Data RatesJ. Heffner, M. Mathis, B. Chandler | Informational | July 2007 |
| 5326 | Licklider Transmission Protocol - SpecificationM. Ramadas, S. Burleigh, S. Farrell | Experimental | September 2008 |
| 5340 | OSPF for IPv6R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy, A. Lindem | Proposed Standard | July 2008 |
| 5722 | Handling of Overlapping IPv6 FragmentsS. Krishnan | Proposed Standard | December 2009 |
| 5927 | ICMP Attacks against TCPF. Gont | Informational | July 2010 |
| 6346 | The Address plus Port (A+P) Approach to the IPv4 Address ShortageR. Bush, Ed. | Experimental | August 2011 |
| 6437 | IPv6 Flow Label SpecificationS. Amante, B. Carpenter, S. Jiang, J. Rajahalme | Proposed Standard | November 2011 |
| 6438 | Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in TunnelsB. Carpenter, S. Amante | Proposed Standard | November 2011 |
| 6888 | Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)S. Perreault, Ed., I. Yamagata, S. Miyakawa, A. Nakagawa, H. Ashida | Best Current Practice | April 2013 |
| 7098 | Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server FarmsB. Carpenter, S. Jiang, W. Tarreau | Informational | January 2014 |
| 7424 | Mechanisms for Optimizing Link Aggregation Group (LAG) and Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) Component Link Utilization in NetworksR. Krishnan, L. Yong, A. Ghanwani, N. So, B. Khasnabish | Informational | January 2015 |
| 7588 | A Widely Deployed Solution to the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation ProblemR. Bonica, C. Pignataro, J. Touch | Informational | July 2015 |
| 7676 | IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)C. Pignataro, R. Bonica, S. Krishnan | Proposed Standard | October 2015 |
| 7739 | Security Implications of Predictable Fragment Identification ValuesF. Gont | Informational | February 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7872 | Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real WorldF. Gont, J. Linkova, T. Chown, W. Liu | Informational | June 2016 |
| 8085 | UDP Usage GuidelinesL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst, G. Shepherd | Best Current Practice | March 2017 |
| 8086 | GRE-in-UDP EncapsulationL. Yong, Ed., E. Crabbe, X. Xu, T. Herbert | Proposed Standard | March 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 |
| 8201 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6J. McCann, S. Deering, J. Mogul, R. Hinden, Ed. | Internet Standard | July 2017 |
| 8899 | Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for Datagram TransportsG. Fairhurst, T. Jones, M. Tüxen, I. Rüngeler, T. Völker | Proposed Standard | September 2020 |