| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2328 | OSPF Version 2J. Moy | Internet Standard | April 1998 |
| 3630 | Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2D. Katz, K. Kompella, D. Yeung | Proposed Standard | October 2003 |
| 4915 | Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPFP. Psenak, S. Mirtorabi, A. Roy, L. Nguyen, P. Pillay-Esnault | Proposed Standard | June 2007 |
| 5340 | OSPF for IPv6R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy, A. Lindem | Proposed Standard | July 2008 |
| 5613 | OSPF Link-Local SignalingA. Zinin, A. Roy, L. Nguyen, B. Friedman, D. Yeung | Proposed Standard | August 2009 |
| 5709 | OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic AuthenticationM. Bhatia, V. Manral, M. Fanto, R. White, M. Barnes, T. Li, R. Atkinson | Proposed Standard | October 2009 |
| 6845 | OSPF Hybrid Broadcast and Point-to-Multipoint Interface TypeN. Sheth, L. Wang, J. Zhang | Proposed Standard | January 2013 |
| 7474 | Security Extension for OSPFv2 When Using Manual Key ManagementM. Bhatia, S. Hartman, D. Zhang, A. Lindem, Ed. | Proposed Standard | April 2015 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 8042 | OSPF Two-Part MetricZ. Zhang, L. Wang, A. Lindem | Proposed Standard | December 2016 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8405 | Shortest Path First (SPF) Back-Off Delay Algorithm for Link-State IGPsB. Decraene, S. Litkowski, H. Gredler, A. Lindem, P. Francois, C. Bowers | Proposed Standard | June 2018 |
| 8500 | IS-IS Routing with Reverse MetricN. Shen, S. Amante, M. Abrahamsson | Proposed Standard | February 2019 |
| 9129 | YANG Data Model for the OSPF ProtocolD. Yeung, Y. Qu, Z. Zhang, I. Chen, A. Lindem | Proposed Standard | October 2022 |