| 801 | NCP/TCP transition planJ. Postel | Unknown | November 1981 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 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 |
| 2827 | Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address SpoofingP. Ferguson, D. Senie | Best Current Practice | May 2000 |
| 4443 | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering, M. Gupta, Ed. | Internet Standard | March 2006 |
| 5406 | Guidelines for Specifying the Use of IPsec Version 2S. Bellovin | Best Current Practice | February 2009 |
| 6040 | Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion NotificationB. Briscoe | Proposed Standard | November 2010 |
| 6282 | Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based NetworksJ. Hui, Ed., P. Thubert | Proposed Standard | September 2011 |
| 6437 | IPv6 Flow Label SpecificationS. Amante, B. Carpenter, S. Jiang, J. Rajahalme | Proposed Standard | November 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 |
| 6553 | The Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Option for Carrying RPL Information in Data-Plane DatagramsJ. Hui, JP. Vasseur | Proposed Standard | March 2012 |
| 6554 | An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)J. Hui, JP. Vasseur, D. Culler, V. Manral | Proposed Standard | March 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 |
| 6997 | Reactive Discovery of Point-to-Point Routes in Low-Power and Lossy NetworksM. Goyal, Ed., E. Baccelli, M. Philipp, A. Brandt, J. Martocci | Experimental | August 2013 |
| 7045 | Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension HeadersB. Carpenter, S. Jiang | Proposed Standard | December 2013 |
| 7102 | Terms Used in Routing for Low-Power and Lossy NetworksJP. Vasseur | Informational | January 2014 |
| 7416 | A Security Threat Analysis for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPLs)T. Tsao, R. Alexander, M. Dohler, V. Daza, A. Lozano, M. Richardson, Ed. | Informational | January 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 8025 | IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Paging DispatchP. Thubert, Ed., R. Cragie | Proposed Standard | November 2016 |
| 8138 | IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing HeaderP. Thubert, Ed., C. Bormann, L. Toutain, R. Cragie | Proposed Standard | April 2017 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8180 | Minimal IPv6 over the TSCH Mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) ConfigurationX. Vilajosana, Ed., K. Pister, T. Watteyne | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8200 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden | Internet Standard | July 2017 |
| 8504 | IPv6 Node RequirementsT. Chown, J. Loughney, T. Winters | Best Current Practice | January 2019 |
| 8505 | Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor DiscoveryP. Thubert, Ed., E. Nordmark, S. Chakrabarti, C. Perkins | Proposed Standard | November 2018 |
| 8928 | Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and Lossy NetworksP. Thubert, Ed., B. Sarikaya, M. Sethi, R. Struik | Proposed Standard | November 2020 |
| 8929 | IPv6 Backbone RouterP. Thubert, Ed., C.E. Perkins, E. Levy-Abegnoli | Proposed Standard | November 2020 |
| 9010 | Routing for RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) LeavesP. Thubert, Ed., M. Richardson | Proposed Standard | April 2021 |