This is a list of RFCs (request for comments memoranda). While there are over 5000 RFCs, this list consists of RFCs that have related articles.

Numerical list

Obsolete RFCs are indicated with struck-through text.

#	Title	Date published	Related article	Obsoleted by	Notes
RFC 114	A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL	April 16, 1971	FTP
RFC 172	THE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL	June 23, 1971	FTP	265
RFC 265	THE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL	November 17, 1971	FTP	354
RFC 354	THE FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL	July 8, 1972	FTP	542
RFC 760	DOD STANDARD INTERNET PROTOCOL	January 1980	IPv4	791
RFC 765	FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL	June 1980	FTP	959
RFC 768	User Datagram Protocol	August 28, 1980	UDP
RFC 783	THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2)	June 1981	TFTP	1350
RFC 790	ASSIGNED NUMBERS	September 1981	IPv4	820
RFC 791	Internet Protocol	September 1981	IPv4
RFC 792	INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL	September 1981	ICMP
RFC 793	TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL	September 1981	TCP
RFC 821	SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL	August 1982	SMTP	2821
RFC 822	STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES	August 13, 1982		2822
RFC 826	An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol	November 1982	ARP
RFC 850	Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages	June 1983	Usenet	1036
RFC 854	TELNET PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION	May 1983	[]
RFC 855	TELNET OPTION SPECIFICATIONS	May 1983
RFC 862	Echo Protocol	May 1983	Echo
RFC 863	Discard Protocol	May 1983	DISCARD
RFC 864	Character Generator Protocol	May 1983	CHARGEN
RFC 868	Time Protocol	May 1983	TIME
RFC 903	A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol	June 1984	RARP
RFC 918	POST OFFICE PROTOCOL	October 1984	POP v 1	937
RFC 937	POST OFFICE PROTOCOL - VERSION 2	February 1985	POP v 2
RFC 951	BOOTSTRAP PROTOCOL (BOOTP)	September 1985	BOOTP
RFC 959	FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP)	October 1985	FTP
RFC 966	Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol	December 1985	IGMP v 0	988
RFC 977	Network News Transfer Protocol	February 1986	NNTP	3977
RFC 988	Host Extensions for IP Multicasting	July 1986	IGMP v 0	1054, 1112
RFC 1034	DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES	November 1987	DNS
RFC 1035	DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION	November 1987	DNS
RFC 1036	Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages	December 1987	Usenet
RFC 1054	Host Extensions for IP Multicasting	May 1988	IGMP v 1	1112
RFC 1058	Routing Information Protocol	June 1988	RIP v 1
RFC 1059	Network Time Protocol (version 1) specification and implementation	July 1988	NTP v 1
RFC 1067	A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)	August 1988	SNMP v1	1098
RFC 1081	Post Office Protocol - Version 3	November 1988	POP v 3	1225
RFC 1087	Ethics and the Internet	January 1989	Internet Ethics
RFC 1094	NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification	March 1989	NFS	3010
RFC 1098	A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)	April 1989	SNMP v1	1157
RFC 1112	Host Extensions for IP Multicasting	August 1989	IGMP v 1
RFC 1119	Network Time Protocol (version 2) specification and implementation	September 1989	NTP v 2
RFC 1131	OSPF	October 1989	OSPF	1247
RFC 1149	A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers	April 1, 1990	IP over Avian Carriers
RFC 1157	A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)	May 1990	SNMP v1
RFC 1176	INTERACTIVE MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 2	August 1990	IMAP v 2
RFC 1225	Post Office Protocol - Version 3	May 1991	POP v 3	1460
RFC 1247	OSPF Version 2	July 1991	OSPF
RFC 1294	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay	January 1992	Frame relay
RFC 1305	Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation and Analysis	March 1992	NTP v 3
RFC 1321	The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm	April 1992	MD5
RFC 1350	THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2)	July 1992	TFTP
RFC 1388	RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information	January 1993	RIP	1723, 2453
RFC 1436	The Internet Gopher Protocol	March 1993	(protocol)>Gopher]
RFC 1441	Introduction to version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework	April 1993	SNMP v 2
RFC 1459	Internet Relay Chat Protocol	May 1993	IRC	2810
RFC 1460	Post Office Protocol - Version 3	June 1993	POP v 3	1725
RFC 1487	X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	July 1993	LDAP	1777
RFC 1490	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay	July 1993	Frame relay	1294
RFC 1508	Generic Security Service Application Program Interface	September 1993	GSSAPI	2078
RFC 1509	Generic Security Service API : C-bindings			2744
RFC 1531	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	October 1993	DHCP	1541
RFC 1541	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	October 1993	DHCP	2131
RFC 1583	OSPF Version 2	March 1994	OSPF	2178
RFC 1631	The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)	May 1994	NAT	3022
RFC 1723	RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information	November 1994	RIP	2453
RFC 1725	Post Office Protocol - Version 3	November 1994	POP v 3	1939
RFC 1730	INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4	December 1994	IMAP v 4
RFC 1777	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	March 1995	LDAP
RFC 1813	NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification	June 1995	NFS v 3	3010
RFC 1855	Netiquette Guidelines	October 1995	Netiquette
RFC 1883	Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification	December 1995	IPv6	2460
RFC 1889	RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications	January 1996	RTP
RFC 1918	Address Allocation for Private Internets	February 1996	Private network
RFC 1939	Post Office Protocol - Version 3	May 1996	POP v 3
RFC 1945	Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0	May 1996	HTTP v 1.0
RFC 1948	Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks	May 1996	IP spoofing
RFC 1950	ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3	May 1996	Zlib v 3.3
RFC 1951	DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3	May 1996	DEFLATE v 1.3
RFC 1952	GZIP file format specification version 4.3	May 1996	Gzip v 4.3
RFC 1964	The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism	June 1996	Kerberos; GSSAPI
RFC 1991	PGP Message Exchange Formats	August 1996	PGP
RFC 2058	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)	January 1997	RADIUS	2138
RFC 2060	INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1	December 1996	IMAP v 4r1	3501
RFC 2078	Generic Security Service Application Program Interface, Version 2	January 1997	GSSAPI v 2	2743
RFC 2080	RIPng for IPv6	January 1997	RIP v ng
RFC 2109	HTTP State Management Mechanism	February 1997	[cookie]	2965
RFC 2117	Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)	June 1997	PIM	2362
RFC 2119	Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels	March 1997	Request for Comments
RFC 2131	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	March 1997	DHCP
RFC 2138	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)	April 1997	RADIUS	2865
RFC 2168	Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System	June 1997	DDDS	3401
RFC 2177	IMAP4 IDLE command	June 1997	IMAP IDLE
RFC 2178	OSPF Version 2	July 1997	OSPF v 2	2328
RFC 2195	IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response	September 1997	CRAM-MD5
RFC 2222	Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)	October 1997	SASL	4422
RFC 2228	FTP Security Extensions	October 1997	FTP
RFC 2236	Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2	November 1997	IGMP v 2	3376
RFC 2246	The TLS Protocol Version 1.0	January 1999	TLS 1.0
RFC 2251	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)	December 1997	LDAP
RFC 2252	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions
RFC 2253	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names
RFC 2254	The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
RFC 2255	The LDAP URL Format
RFC 2256	A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3
RFC 2326	Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)	April 1998	RTSP
RFC 2327	SDP: Session Description Protocol	April 1998	SDP
RFC 2328	OSPF Version 2	April 1998	OSPF
RFC 2351	Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging Traffic over IP	May 1998	MATIP
RFC 2362	Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)	June 1998	PIM
RFC 2373	IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture	July 1998	IPv6	3513
RFC 2397	The "data" URL scheme	August 1998	Data: URI scheme
RFC 2427	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay	September 1998	Frame relay	1294, 1490
RFC 2440	OpenPGP Message Format	November 1998	OpenPGP
RFC 2453	RIP Version 2	November 1998	RIP v 2
RFC 2460	Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification	December 1998	IPv6
RFC 2549	IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service	April 1, 1999	IP over Avian Carriers
RFC 2570	Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework	April 1999	SNMP v3
RFC 2606	Reserved Top Level DNS Names	June 1999	Fictitious domain name		example.com, .test, ...
RFC 2616	Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1	June 1999	HTTP v 1.1
RFC 2740	OSPF for IPv6	December 1999	OSPF
RFC 2743	Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1	January 2000	GSSAPI v 2
RFC 2744	Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
RFC 2810	Internet Relay Chat: Architecture	April 2000	IRC
RFC 2811	Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management
RFC 2812	Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
RFC 2813	Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol
RFC 2821	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol	April 2001	SMTP
RFC 2822	Internet Message Format	April 2001
RFC 2853	Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java Bindings	June 2000	GSSAPI v 2
RFC 2865	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)	June 2000	RADIUS
RFC 2915	The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record	September 2000	DDDS	3401
RFC 2960	Stream Control Transmission Protocol	October 2000	SCTP	4960
RFC 2965	HTTP State Management Mechanism	October 2000	[cookie]
RFC 2974	Session Announcement Protocol	October 2000	SAP
RFC 3010	NFS version 4 Protocol	December 2000	NFS v 4	3530
RFC 3022	Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)	January 2001	NAT
RFC 3031	Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture	January 2001	MPLS
RFC 3080	The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core	March 2001	BEEP
RFC 3162	RADIUS and IPv6	August 2001	RADIUS (IPv6)
RFC 3174	US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1)	September 2001	SHA hash functions	4634
RFC 3261	SIP: Session Initiation Protocol	June 2002	SIP
RFC 3286	An Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)	May 2002	SCTP
RFC 3315	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)	July 2003	DHCP (IPv6)
RFC 3339	Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps	July 2002	Timestamp
RFC 3376	Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3	October 2002	IGMP v 3
RFC 3401	Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part One: The Comprehensive DDDS	October 2002	DDDS
RFC 3402	Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Two: The Algorithm
RFC 3403	Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database
RFC 3404	Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Resolution Application
RFC 3405	Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures
RFC 3501	INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1	March 2003	IMAP v 4r1
RFC 3513	IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture	April 2003	IPv6
RFC 3530	Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol	April 2003	NFS v 4
RFC 3720	Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)	April 2004	ISCSI
RFC 3783	Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) Command Ordering Considerations with iSCSI	May 2004	ISCSI
RFC 3801	Voice Profile for Internet Protocol	June 2004	VPIM
RFC 3977	Network News Transfer Protocol	October 2006	NNTP
RFC 4217	Securing FTP with TLS	October 2005	FTP
RFC 4287	The Atom Syndication Format	December 2005	Atom
RFC 4251	The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture	January 2006	SSH-2
RFC 4353	A Framework for Conferencing with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)	February 2006	Conference_call
RFC 4408	Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail, Version 1	January 2006	SPF
RFC 4422	Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)	June 2006	SASL
RFC 4575	A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State	August 2006	Conference_call
RFC 4579	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for User Agents	August 2006	Conference_call
RFC 4634	US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)	July 2006	SHA hash functions
RFC 4646	Tags for Identifying Languages	September 2006	language tags
RFC 4787	Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP	January 2007	NAT
RFC 4960	Stream Control Transmission Protocol	September 2007	SCTP
RFC 5023	The Atom Publishing Protocol	October 2007	Atom

Topical list

Obsolete RFCs are indicated with struck-through text.

Topic	Related RFCs
Address Resolution Protocol	826
BEEP	3080
BOOTP	951
CRAM-MD5	2195
ISO 8601) > 3339
DEFLATE	1951
DISCARD	863
Domain Name System	1034, 1035, 2606
Dynamic Delegation Discovery System	2168, 2915, 3401, 3402, 3403, 3404, 3405
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	1531, 1541, 2131, 3315 (IPv6)
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol	3920 3921 3922
ECHO protocol	862
Fictitious domain name	2606
File Transfer Protocol	114, 172, 265, 354, 765, 959, 2228, 4217
Frame Relay	1294, 1490, 2427
Generic Security Services Application Program Interface	1508, 1509, 1964, 2078, 2743, 2744, 2853
gzip	1952
HyperText Transfer Protocol	1945 (v 1.0), 2616 (v 1.1)
Internet Control Message Protocol	792
Internet Group Management Protocol	966 (v 0), 988 (v 0), 1054 (v 1), 1112 (v 1), 2236 (v 2), 3376 (v 3)
Internet Message Access Protocol	1176 (v 2), 1730 (v 4), 2060 (v 4r1), 3501 (v 4r1)
Internet Protocol	see IPv4 and IPv6
IP over Avian Carriers	1149, 2549
IPv4	760, 790, 791
IPv6	1883, 2460
IPv6 addressing	2373, 3513
Internet Relay Chat	1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813
ISCSI	3720, 3783
Kerberos	1964
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol	1487, 1777, 2251, 2252, 2253, 2254, 2255, 2256
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption	2118, 3078
MD5	1321
Multiprotocol Label Switching	3031
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions	2045 2046 2047 2049
Network address translation	1631, 2663, 2993, 3022, 3027, 3234, 3489, 4787 (Will be obsoleted by draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis if approved.)
Network File System	1094, 1813 (v.3), 3010 (v.4), 3530 (v.4)
Network News Transfer Protocol	977, 3977
Network Time Protocol	1059 (v.1), 1119 (v.2), 1305 (v.3)
Open Shortest Path First	1131 (v.1), 1247 (v.2), 1583 (v.2), 2178 (v.2), 2328, 2740 (IPv6), 5340 (IPv6)
Pretty Good Privacy	1991, 2440
Protocol Independent Multicast	2117, 2362 (SM), 4602 (SM)
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol	903
Post Office Protocol	918 (v.1), 937 (v.2), 1081 (v.3), 1225 (v.3), 1460 (v.3), 1725 (v.3), 1939 (v.3)
RADIUS	2058, 2138, 2865, 3162 (IPv6)
Real-time Transport Protocol	1889
Real Time Streaming Protocol	2326
Routing Information Protocol	1058 (v.1), 1388 (v.2), 1723 (v.2), 2453 (v.2), 2080 (v.ng)
Sender Policy Framework	4408
Secure Shell-2	4251
Session Announcement Protocol	2974
Session Description Protocol	2327
Session Initiation Protocol	3261
SHA hash functions	3174, 4634
Simple Authentication and Security Layer	2222, 4422
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol	821, 822, 2821, 2822
Simple Network Management Protocol	1067, 1098, 1157 (v.1), 1441 (v.2) 2570 (v.3)
Stream Control Transmission Protocol	2960, 4960, 3286
[]	854, 855
Transmission Control Protocol	793
Transport Layer Security 1.0	2246
Trivial File Transfer Protocol	783, 1350
Usenet	850, 1036
Uniform Resource Identifier	3986
User Datagram Protocol	768
UTF-8	3629
zlib	1950

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