| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1122 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication LayersR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 2018 | TCP Selective Acknowledgment OptionsM. Mathis, J. Mahdavi, S. Floyd, A. Romanow | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2757 | Long Thin NetworksG. Montenegro, S. Dawkins, M. Kojo, V. Magret, N. Vaidya | Informational | January 2000 |
| 2884 | Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP NetworksJ. Hadi Salim, U. Ahmed | Informational | July 2000 |
| 3042 | Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited TransmitM. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, S. Floyd | Proposed Standard | January 2001 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3481 | TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless NetworksH. Inamura, Ed., G. Montenegro, Ed., R. Ludwig, A. Gurtov, F. Khafizov | Best Current Practice | February 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 |
| 4944 | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 NetworksG. Montenegro, N. Kushalnagar, J. Hui, D. Culler | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 5382 | NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCPS. Guha, Ed., K. Biswas, B. Ford, S. Sivakumar, P. Srisuresh | Best Current Practice | October 2008 |
| 5681 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, E. Blanton | Draft Standard | September 2009 |
| 5925 | The TCP Authentication OptionJ. Touch, A. Mankin, R. Bonica | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6077 | Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion ControlD. Papadimitriou, Ed., M. Welzl, M. Scharf, B. Briscoe | Informational | February 2011 |
| 6120 | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): CoreP. Saint-Andre | Proposed Standard | March 2011 |
| 6282 | Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based NetworksJ. Hui, Ed., P. Thubert | Proposed Standard | September 2011 |
| 6298 | Computing TCP's Retransmission TimerV. Paxson, M. Allman, J. Chu, M. Sargent | Proposed Standard | June 2011 |
| 6550 | RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy NetworksT. Winter, Ed., P. Thubert, Ed., A. Brandt, J. Hui, R. Kelsey, P. Levis, K. Pister, R. Struik, JP. Vasseur, R. Alexander | Proposed Standard | March 2012 |
| 6606 | Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) RoutingE. Kim, D. Kaspar, C. Gomez, C. Bormann | Informational | May 2012 |
| 6691 | TCP Options and Maximum Segment Size (MSS)D. Borman · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Informational | July 2012 |
| 6775 | Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)Z. Shelby, Ed., S. Chakrabarti, E. Nordmark, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | November 2012 |
| 6928 | Increasing TCP's Initial WindowJ. Chu, N. Dukkipati, Y. Cheng, M. Mathis | Experimental | April 2013 |
| 7228 | Terminology for Constrained-Node NetworksC. Bormann, M. Ersue, A. Keranen | Informational | May 2014 |
| 7230 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and RoutingR. Fielding, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9110, RFC 9112 | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7252 | The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)Z. Shelby, K. Hartke, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7323 | TCP Extensions for High PerformanceD. Borman, B. Braden, V. Jacobson, R. Scheffenegger, Ed. | Proposed Standard | September 2014 |
| 7413 | TCP Fast OpenY. Cheng, J. Chu, S. Radhakrishnan, A. Jain | Experimental | December 2014 |
| 7414 | A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification DocumentsM. Duke, R. Braden, W. Eddy, E. Blanton, A. Zimmermann | Informational | February 2015 |
| 7428 | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over ITU-T G.9959 NetworksA. Brandt, J. Buron | Proposed Standard | February 2015 |
| 7540 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)M. Belshe, R. Peon, M. Thomson, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9113 | Proposed Standard | May 2015 |
| 7567 | IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue ManagementF. Baker, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. | Best Current Practice | July 2015 |
| 7668 | IPv6 over BLUETOOTH(R) Low EnergyJ. Nieminen, T. Savolainen, M. Isomaki, B. Patil, Z. Shelby, C. Gomez | Proposed Standard | October 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 8087 | The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)G. Fairhurst, M. Welzl | Informational | March 2017 |
| 8105 | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Ultra Low Energy (ULE)P. Mariager, J. Petersen, Ed., Z. Shelby, M. Van de Logt, D. Barthel | Proposed Standard | May 2017 |
| 8163 | Transmission of IPv6 over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) NetworksK. Lynn, Ed., J. Martocci, C. Neilson, S. Donaldson | Proposed Standard | 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 |
| 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 |
| 8352 | Energy-Efficient Features of Internet of Things ProtocolsC. Gomez, M. Kovatsch, H. Tian, Z. Cao, Ed. | Informational | April 2018 |
| 8376 | Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) OverviewS. Farrell, Ed. | Informational | May 2018 |
| 8446 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2018 |
| 8900 | IP Fragmentation Considered FragileR. Bonica, F. Baker, G. Huston, R. Hinden, O. Troan, F. Gont | Best Current Practice | September 2020 |
| 8931 | IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment RecoveryP. Thubert, Ed. | Proposed Standard | November 2020 |
| 8961 | Requirements for Time-Based Loss DetectionM. Allman | Best Current Practice | November 2020 |