| 791 | Internet ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 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 |
| 2782 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov | Proposed Standard | February 2000 |
| 3261 | SIP: Session Initiation ProtocolJ. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E. Schooler | Proposed Standard | July 2002 |
| 3403 | Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) DatabaseM. Mealling | Proposed Standard | October 2002 |
| 3986 | Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter | Internet Standard | January 2005 |
| 4291 | IP Version 6 Addressing ArchitectureR. Hinden, S. Deering | Draft Standard | February 2006 |
| 4343 | Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity ClarificationD. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | January 2006 |
| 4514 | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): String Representation of Distinguished NamesK. Zeilenga, Ed. | Proposed Standard | June 2006 |
| 4592 | The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name SystemE. Lewis | Proposed Standard | July 2006 |
| 4949 | Internet Security Glossary, Version 2R. Shirey | Informational | August 2007 |
| 4985 | Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Subject Alternative Name for Expression of Service NameS. Santesson | Proposed Standard | August 2007 |
| 5234 | Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNFD. Crocker, Ed., P. Overell | Internet Standard | January 2008 |
| 5280 | Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) ProfileD. Cooper, S. Santesson, S. Farrell, S. Boeyen, R. Housley, W. Polk | Proposed Standard | May 2008 |
| 5630 | The Use of the SIPS URI Scheme in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)F. Audet | Proposed Standard | October 2009 |
| 5890 | Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document FrameworkJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 5891 | Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): ProtocolJ. Klensin | Proposed Standard | August 2010 |
| 5922 | Domain Certificates in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)V. Gurbani, S. Lawrence, A. Jeffrey | Proposed Standard | June 2010 |
| 6066 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension DefinitionsD. Eastlake 3rd | Proposed Standard | January 2011 |
| 6120 | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): CoreP. Saint-Andre | Proposed Standard | March 2011 |
| 6125 | Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS)P. Saint-Andre, J. Hodges · obsoleted by RFC 9525 | Proposed Standard | March 2011 |
| 6186 | Use of SRV Records for Locating Email Submission/Access ServicesC. Daboo | Proposed Standard | March 2011 |
| 6698 | The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSAP. Hoffman, J. Schlyter | Proposed Standard | August 2012 |
| 7301 | Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation ExtensionS. Friedl, A. Popov, A. Langley, E. Stephan | Proposed Standard | July 2014 |
| 7841 | RFC Streams, Headers, and BoilerplatesJ. Halpern, Ed., L. Daigle, Ed., O. Kolkman, Ed. | Informational | May 2016 |
| 7858 | Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)Z. Hu, L. Zhu, J. Heidemann, A. Mankin, D. Wessels, P. Hoffman | Proposed Standard | May 2016 |
| 8174 | Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba | Best Current Practice | May 2017 |
| 8446 | The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla · obsoleted by RFC 9846 | Proposed Standard | August 2018 |
| 8555 | Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)R. Barnes, J. Hoffman-Andrews, D. McCarney, J. Kasten | Proposed Standard | March 2019 |
| 8689 | SMTP Require TLS OptionJ. Fenton | Proposed Standard | November 2019 |
| 8915 | Network Time Security for the Network Time ProtocolD. Franke, D. Sibold, K. Teichel, M. Dansarie, R. Sundblad | Proposed Standard | September 2020 |
| 9000 | QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure TransportJ. Iyengar, Ed., M. Thomson, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2021 |
| 9001 | Using TLS to Secure QUICM. Thomson, Ed., S. Turner, Ed. | Proposed Standard | May 2021 |
| 9110 | HTTP SemanticsR. Fielding, Ed., M. Nottingham, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed. | Internet Standard | June 2022 |
| 9147 | The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3E. Rescorla, H. Tschofenig, N. Modadugu | Proposed Standard | April 2022 |
| 9325 | Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)Y. Sheffer, P. Saint-Andre, T. Fossati | Best Current Practice | November 2022 |
| 9345 | Delegated Credentials for TLS and DTLSR. Barnes, S. Iyengar, N. Sullivan, E. Rescorla | Proposed Standard | July 2023 |
| 9460 | Service Binding and Parameter Specification via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records)B. Schwartz, M. Bishop, E. Nygren | Proposed Standard | November 2023 |
| 9461 | Service Binding Mapping for DNS ServersB. Schwartz | Proposed Standard | November 2023 |