| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 1112 | Host extensions for IP multicastingS.E. Deering | Internet Standard | August 1989 |
| 1701 | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)S. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina | Informational | October 1994 |
| 1702 | Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networksS. Hanks, T. Li, D. Farinacci, P. Traina | Informational | October 1994 |
| 2003 | IP Encapsulation within IPC. Perkins | Proposed Standard | October 1996 |
| 2080 | RIPng for IPv6G. Malkin, R. Minnear | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 2236 | Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2W. Fenner | Proposed Standard | November 1997 |
| 2453 | RIP Version 2G. Malkin | Internet Standard | November 1998 |
| 2473 | Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 SpecificationA. Conta, S. Deering | Proposed Standard | December 1998 |
| 2710 | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 1999 |
| 3209 | RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP TunnelsD. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, V. Srinivasan, G. Swallow | Proposed Standard | December 2001 |
| 3376 | Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3B. Cain, S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan · obsoleted by RFC 9776 | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3688 | The IETF XML RegistryM. Mealling | Best Current Practice | January 2004 |
| 3810 | Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6R. Vida, Ed., L. Costa, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9777 | Proposed Standard | June 2004 |
| 3931 | Layer Two Tunneling Protocol - Version 3 (L2TPv3)J. Lau, Ed., M. Townsley, Ed., I. Goyret, Ed. | Proposed Standard | March 2005 |
| 4026 | Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Network (VPN) TerminologyL. Andersson, T. Madsen | Informational | March 2005 |
| 4176 | Framework for Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks (L3VPN) Operations and ManagementY. El Mghazli, Ed., T. Nadeau, M. Boucadair, K. Chan, A. Gonguet | Informational | October 2005 |
| 4271 | A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)Y. Rekhter, Ed., T. Li, Ed., S. Hares, Ed. | Draft Standard | January 2006 |
| 4364 | BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter | Proposed Standard | February 2006 |
| 4577 | OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)E. Rosen, P. Psenak, P. Pillay-Esnault | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4664 | Framework for Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)L. Andersson, Ed., E. Rosen, Ed. | Informational | September 2006 |
| 4761 | Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and SignalingK. Kompella, Ed., Y. Rekhter, Ed. | Proposed Standard | January 2007 |
| 4762 | Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) SignalingM. Lasserre, Ed., V. Kompella, Ed. | Proposed Standard | January 2007 |
| 4960 | Stream Control Transmission ProtocolR. Stewart, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9260 | Proposed Standard | September 2007 |
| 5036 | LDP SpecificationL. Andersson, Ed., I. Minei, Ed., B. Thomas, Ed. | Draft Standard | October 2007 |
| 5798 | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6S. Nadas, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9568 | Proposed Standard | March 2010 |
| 5880 | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)D. Katz, D. Ward | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6020 | YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)M. Bjorklund, Ed. | Proposed Standard | October 2010 |
| 6241 | Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)R. Enns, Ed., M. Bjorklund, Ed., J. Schoenwaelder, Ed., A. Bierman, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2011 |
| 6242 | Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH)M. Wasserman | Proposed Standard | June 2011 |
| 6513 | Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNsE. Rosen, Ed., R. Aggarwal, Ed. | Proposed Standard | February 2012 |
| 6565 | OSPFv3 as a Provider Edge to Customer Edge (PE-CE) Routing ProtocolP. Pillay-Esnault, P. Moyer, J. Doyle, E. Ertekin, M. Lundberg | Proposed Standard | June 2012 |
| 6624 | Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and SignalingK. Kompella, B. Kothari, R. Cherukuri | Informational | May 2012 |
| 6991 | Common YANG Data TypesJ. Schoenwaelder, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 9911 | Proposed Standard | July 2013 |
| 7348 | Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 NetworksM. Mahalingam, D. Dutt, K. Duda, P. Agarwal, L. Kreeger, T. Sridhar, M. Bursell, C. Wright | Informational | August 2014 |
| 7432 | BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPNA. Sajassi, Ed., R. Aggarwal, N. Bitar, A. Isaac, J. Uttaro, J. Drake, W. Henderickx | Proposed Standard | February 2015 |
| 7510 | Encapsulating MPLS in UDPX. Xu, N. Sheth, L. Yong, R. Callon, D. Black | Proposed Standard | April 2015 |
| 7623 | Provider Backbone Bridging Combined with Ethernet VPN (PBB-EVPN)A. Sajassi, Ed., S. Salam, N. Bitar, A. Isaac, W. Henderickx | Proposed Standard | September 2015 |
| 7676 | IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)C. Pignataro, R. Bonica, S. Krishnan | Proposed Standard | October 2015 |
| 7761 | Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)B. Fenner, M. Handley, H. Holbrook, I. Kouvelas, R. Parekh, Z. Zhang, L. Zheng | Internet Standard | March 2016 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7880 | Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD)C. Pignataro, D. Ward, N. Akiya, M. Bhatia, S. Pallagatti | Proposed Standard | July 2016 |
| 7950 | The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling LanguageM. Bjorklund, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 2016 |
| 8040 | RESTCONF ProtocolA. Bierman, M. Bjorklund, K. Watsen | Proposed Standard | January 2017 |
| 8200 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) SpecificationS. Deering, R. Hinden | Internet Standard | July 2017 |
| 8214 | Virtual Private Wire Service Support in Ethernet VPNS. Boutros, A. Sajassi, S. Salam, J. Drake, J. Rabadan | Proposed Standard | August 2017 |
| 8277 | Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address PrefixesE. Rosen | Proposed Standard | October 2017 |
| 8294 | Common YANG Data Types for the Routing AreaX. Liu, Y. Qu, A. Lindem, C. Hopps, L. Berger | Proposed Standard | December 2017 |
| 8299 | YANG Data Model for L3VPN Service DeliveryQ. Wu, Ed., S. Litkowski, L. Tomotaki, K. Ogaki | Proposed Standard | January 2018 |
| 8340 | YANG Tree DiagramsM. Bjorklund, L. Berger, Ed. | Best Current Practice | March 2018 |
| 8341 | Network Configuration Access Control ModelA. Bierman, M. Bjorklund | Internet Standard | March 2018 |
| 8365 | A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)A. Sajassi, Ed., J. Drake, Ed., N. Bitar, R. Shekhar, J. Uttaro, W. Henderickx | Proposed Standard | March 2018 |
| 8446 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2018 |
| 8453 | Framework for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN)D. Ceccarelli, Ed., Y. Lee, Ed. | Informational | August 2018 |
| 8466 | A YANG Data Model for Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) Service DeliveryB. Wen, G. Fioccola, Ed., C. Xie, L. Jalil | Proposed Standard | October 2018 |
| 8512 | A YANG Module for Network Address Translation (NAT) and Network Prefix Translation (NPT)M. Boucadair, Ed., S. Sivakumar, C. Jacquenet, S. Vinapamula, Q. Wu | Proposed Standard | January 2019 |
| 8519 | YANG Data Model for Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)M. Jethanandani, S. Agarwal, L. Huang, D. Blair | Proposed Standard | March 2019 |
| 8660 | Segment Routing with the MPLS Data PlaneA. Bashandy, Ed., C. Filsfils, Ed., S. Previdi, B. Decraene, S. Litkowski, R. Shakir | Proposed Standard | December 2019 |
| 8663 | MPLS Segment Routing over IPX. Xu, S. Bryant, A. Farrel, S. Hassan, W. Henderickx, Z. Li | Proposed Standard | December 2019 |
| 8754 | IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)C. Filsfils, Ed., D. Dukes, Ed., S. Previdi, J. Leddy, S. Matsushima, D. Voyer | Proposed Standard | March 2020 |
| 8926 | Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization EncapsulationJ. Gross, Ed., I. Ganga, Ed., T. Sridhar, Ed. | Proposed Standard | November 2020 |
| 9182 | A YANG Network Data Model for Layer 3 VPNsS. Barguil, O. Gonzalez de Dios, Ed., M. Boucadair, Ed., L. Munoz, A. Aguado | Proposed Standard | February 2022 |