| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2597 | Assured Forwarding PHB GroupJ. Heinanen, F. Baker, W. Weiss, J. Wroclawski | Proposed Standard | June 1999 |
| 3172 | Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")G. Huston, Ed. | Best Current Practice | September 2001 |
| 4231 | Identifiers and Test Vectors for HMAC-SHA-224, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512M. Nystrom | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4944 | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 NetworksG. Montenegro, N. Kushalnagar, J. Hui, D. Culler | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 5869 | HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF)H. Krawczyk, P. Eronen | Informational | May 2010 |
| 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 |
| 6761 | Special-Use Domain NamesS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 6762 | Multicast DNSS. Cheshire, M. Krochmal | Proposed Standard | February 2013 |
| 7252 | The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)Z. Shelby, K. Hartke, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | June 2014 |
| 7554 | Using IEEE 802.15.4e Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) in the Internet of Things (IoT): Problem StatementT. Watteyne, Ed., M. Palattella, L. Grieco | Informational | May 2015 |
| 7721 | Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation MechanismsA. Cooper, F. Gont, D. Thaler | Informational | March 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 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 |
| 8152 | CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)J. Schaad · obsoleted by RFC 9052, RFC 9053 | Proposed Standard | July 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 |
| 8415 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, B. Volz, A. Yourtchenko, M. Richardson, S. Jiang, T. Lemon, T. Winters · obsoleted by RFC 9915 | Proposed Standard | November 2018 |
| 8480 | 6TiSCH Operation Sublayer (6top) Protocol (6P)Q. Wang, Ed., X. Vilajosana, T. Watteyne | Proposed Standard | November 2018 |
| 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 |
| 8610 | Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL): A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and JSON Data StructuresH. Birkholz, C. Vigano, C. Bormann | Proposed Standard | June 2019 |
| 8613 | Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)G. Selander, J. Mattsson, F. Palombini, L. Seitz | Proposed Standard | July 2019 |
| 8615 | Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)M. Nottingham | Proposed Standard | May 2019 |
| 8742 | Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) SequencesC. Bormann | Proposed Standard | February 2020 |
| 8820 | URI Design and OwnershipM. Nottingham | Best Current Practice | June 2020 |
| 8949 | Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)C. Bormann, P. Hoffman | Internet Standard | December 2020 |
| 8974 | Extended Tokens and Stateless Clients in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)K. Hartke, M. Richardson | Proposed Standard | January 2021 |
| 8990 | GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)C. Bormann, B. Carpenter, Ed., B. Liu, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2021 |
| 9030 | An Architecture for IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Mode of IEEE 802.15.4 (6TiSCH)P. Thubert, Ed. | Informational | May 2021 |