| 970 | On Packet Switches With Infinite StorageJ. Nagle | Unknown | December 1985 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2914 | Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd | Best Current Practice | September 2000 |
| 3168 | The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IPK. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black | Proposed Standard | September 2001 |
| 3246 | An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)B. Davie, A. Charny, J.C.R. Bennet, K. Benson, J.Y. Le Boudec, W. Courtney, S. Davari, V. Firoiu, D. Stiliadis | Proposed Standard | March 2002 |
| 3649 | HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion WindowsS. Floyd | Experimental | December 2003 |
| 5033 | Specifying New Congestion Control AlgorithmsS. Floyd, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 9743 | Best Current Practice | August 2007 |
| 5348 | TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol SpecificationS. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, J. Widmer | Proposed Standard | September 2008 |
| 5681 | TCP Congestion ControlM. Allman, V. Paxson, E. Blanton | Draft Standard | September 2009 |
| 5706 | Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol ExtensionsD. Harrington | Informational | November 2009 |
| 7567 | IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue ManagementF. Baker, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. | Best Current Practice | July 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 8033 | Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE): A Lightweight Control Scheme to Address the Bufferbloat ProblemR. Pan, P. Natarajan, F. Baker, G. White | Experimental | February 2017 |
| 8034 | Active Queue Management (AQM) Based on Proportional Integral Controller Enhanced (PIE) for Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Cable ModemsG. White, R. Pan | Informational | February 2017 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8257 | Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data CentersS. Bensley, D. Thaler, P. Balasubramanian, L. Eggert, G. Judd | Informational | October 2017 |
| 8290 | The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and Active Queue Management AlgorithmT. Hoeiland-Joergensen, P. McKenney, D. Taht, J. Gettys, E. Dumazet | Experimental | January 2018 |
| 8298 | Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for MultimediaI. Johansson, Z. Sarker | Experimental | December 2017 |
| 8311 | Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) ExperimentationD. Black | Proposed Standard | January 2018 |
| 8312 | CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance NetworksI. Rhee, L. Xu, S. Ha, A. Zimmermann, L. Eggert, R. Scheffenegger · obsoleted by RFC 9438 | Informational | February 2018 |
| 8404 | Effects of Pervasive Encryption on OperatorsK. Moriarty, Ed., A. Morton, Ed. | Informational | July 2018 |
| 9000 | QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure TransportJ. Iyengar, Ed., M. Thomson, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2021 |
| 9330 | Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: ArchitectureB. Briscoe, Ed., K. De Schepper, M. Bagnulo, G. White | Informational | January 2023 |
| 9331 | The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)K. De Schepper, B. Briscoe, Ed. | Experimental | January 2023 |