Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document
This specification has been revised 32 times since RFC 1083 (1988). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.
Revision timeline
- RFC 1083 (1988)
- RFC 1100 (1989)
- RFC 1130 (1989)
- RFC 1140 (1990)
- RFC 1200 (1991)
- RFC 1250 (1991)
- RFC 1280 (1992)
- RFC 1360 (1992)
- RFC 1410 (1993)
- RFC 1500 (1993)
- RFC 1540 (1993)
- RFC 1600 (1994)
- RFC 1610 (1994)
- RFC 1720 (1994)
- RFC 1780 (1995)
- RFC 1800 (1995)
- RFC 1880 (1995)
- RFC 1920 (1996)
- RFC 2000 (1997)
- RFC 2200 (1997)
- RFC 2300 (1998)
- RFC 2400 (1998)
- RFC 2500 (1999)
- RFC 2600 (2000)
- RFC 2700 (2000)
- RFC 2800 (2001)
- RFC 2900 (2001)
- RFC 3000 (2001)
- RFC 3300 (2002)
- RFC 3600 (2003)
- RFC 3700 (2004)
- RFC 5000 (2008)
- RFC 7100 (2013) ✓
Current version — implement against this
Superseded versions — historical reference only
- RFC 1083IAB official protocol standardsObsoletedDecember 1988historicreplaced by RFC1100
- RFC 1100IAB official protocol standardsObsoletedApril 1989historicreplaced by RFC1130
- RFC 1130IAB official protocol standardsObsoletedOctober 1989historicreplaced by RFC1140
- RFC 1140IAB official protocol standardsObsoletedMay 1990historicreplaced by RFC1200
- RFC 1200IAB official protocol standardsObsoletedApril 1991historicreplaced by RFC1250
- RFC 1250IAB Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedAugust 1991historicreplaced by RFC1280, RFC2200
- RFC 1280IAB Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 1992historicreplaced by RFC1360
- RFC 1360IAB Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedSeptember 1992historicreplaced by RFC1410
- RFC 1410IAB Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 1993historicreplaced by RFC1500
- RFC 1500Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedAugust 1993historicreplaced by RFC1540
- RFC 1540Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedOctober 1993historicreplaced by RFC1600
- RFC 1600Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 1994historicreplaced by RFC1610
- RFC 1610Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedJuly 1994historicreplaced by RFC1720
- RFC 1720Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedNovember 1994historicreplaced by RFC1780
- RFC 1780Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 1995historicreplaced by RFC1800
- RFC 1800Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedJuly 1995historicreplaced by RFC1880
- RFC 1880Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedNovember 1995historicreplaced by RFC1920
- RFC 1920Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 1996historicreplaced by RFC2000
- RFC 2000Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedFebruary 1997historicreplaced by RFC2200
- RFC 2200Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedJune 1997historicreplaced by RFC2300
- RFC 2300Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMay 1998historicreplaced by RFC2400
- RFC 2400Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedSeptember 1998historicreplaced by RFC2500
- RFC 2500Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedJune 1999historicreplaced by RFC2600
- RFC 2600Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMarch 2000historicreplaced by RFC2700
- RFC 2700Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedAugust 2000historicreplaced by RFC2800
- RFC 2800Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMay 2001historicreplaced by RFC2900
- RFC 2900Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedAugust 2001historicreplaced by RFC3000
- RFC 3000Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedNovember 2001historicreplaced by RFC3300
- RFC 3300Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedNovember 2002historicreplaced by RFC3600
- RFC 3600Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedNovember 2003historicreplaced by RFC3700
- RFC 3700Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedJuly 2004historicreplaced by RFC5000
- RFC 5000Internet Official Protocol StandardsObsoletedMay 2008historicreplaced by RFC7100
This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 7100 (December 2013).