| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2205 | Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional SpecificationR. Braden, Ed., L. Zhang, S. Berson, S. Herzog, S. Jamin | Proposed Standard | September 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 |
| 2675 | IPv6 JumbogramsD. Borman, S. Deering, R. Hinden | Proposed Standard | August 1999 |
| 2710 | Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6S. Deering, W. Fenner, B. Haberman | Proposed Standard | October 1999 |
| 2711 | IPv6 Router Alert OptionC. Partridge, A. Jackson | Proposed Standard | October 1999 |
| 3692 | Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered UsefulT. Narten | 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 |
| 3871 | Operational Security Requirements for Large Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP Network InfrastructureG. Jones, Ed. | Informational | September 2004 |
| 4286 | Multicast Router DiscoveryB. Haberman, J. Martin | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4301 | Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolS. Kent, K. Seo | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4302 | IP Authentication HeaderS. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4303 | IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)S. Kent | Proposed Standard | December 2005 |
| 4727 | Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP HeadersB. Fenner | Proposed Standard | November 2006 |
| 4782 | Quick-Start for TCP and IPS. Floyd, M. Allman, A. Jain, P. Sarolahti | Experimental | January 2007 |
| 5095 | Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6J. Abley, P. Savola, G. Neville-Neil | Proposed Standard | December 2007 |
| 5533 | Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6E. Nordmark, M. Bagnulo | Proposed Standard | June 2009 |
| 5570 | Common Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO)M. StJohns, R. Atkinson, G. Thomas | Informational | July 2009 |
| 5971 | GIST: General Internet Signalling TransportH. Schulzrinne, R. Hancock | Experimental | October 2010 |
| 6192 | Protecting the Router Control PlaneD. Dugal, C. Pignataro, R. Dunn | Informational | March 2011 |
| 6275 | Mobility Support in IPv6C. Perkins, Ed., D. Johnson, J. Arkko | Proposed Standard | July 2011 |
| 6398 | IP Router Alert Considerations and UsageF. Le Faucheur, Ed. | Best Current Practice | October 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 |
| 6621 | Simplified Multicast ForwardingJ. Macker, Ed. | Experimental | May 2012 |
| 6740 | Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) Architectural DescriptionRJ Atkinson, SN Bhatti | Experimental | November 2012 |
| 6744 | IPv6 Nonce Destination Option for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6)RJ Atkinson, SN Bhatti | Experimental | November 2012 |
| 6788 | The Line-Identification OptionS. Krishnan, A. Kavanagh, B. Varga, S. Ooghe, E. Nordmark | Proposed Standard | November 2012 |
| 6971 | Depth-First Forwarding (DFF) in Unreliable NetworksU. Herberg, Ed., A. Cardenas, T. Iwao, M. Dow, S. Cespedes | Experimental | June 2013 |
| 7045 | Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension HeadersB. Carpenter, S. Jiang | Proposed Standard | December 2013 |
| 7112 | Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header ChainsF. Gont, V. Manral, R. Bonica | Proposed Standard | January 2014 |
| 7126 | Recommendations on Filtering of IPv4 Packets Containing IPv4 OptionsF. Gont, R. Atkinson, C. Pignataro | Best Current Practice | February 2014 |
| 7401 | Host Identity Protocol Version 2 (HIPv2)R. Moskowitz, Ed., T. Heer, P. Jokela, T. Henderson | Proposed Standard | April 2015 |
| 7731 | Multicast Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (MPL)J. Hui, R. Kelsey | Proposed Standard | February 2016 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 8250 | IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics (PDM) Destination OptionN. Elkins, R. Hamilton, M. Ackermann | Proposed Standard | September 2017 |
| 8754 | IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)C. Filsfils, Ed., D. Dukes, Ed., S. Previdi, J. Leddy, S. Matsushima, D. Voyer | Proposed Standard | March 2020 |
| 8900 | IP Fragmentation Considered FragileR. Bonica, F. Baker, G. Huston, R. Hinden, O. Troan, F. Gont | Best Current Practice | September 2020 |
| 9008 | Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes, and IPv6-in-IPv6 Encapsulation in the RPL Data PlaneM.I. Robles, M. Richardson, P. Thubert | Proposed Standard | April 2021 |
| 9098 | Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension HeadersF. Gont, N. Hilliard, G. Doering, W. Kumari, G. Huston, W. Liu | Informational | September 2021 |