World Wide Web RFCs: IETF Specifications for the Web
The table below lists all the current RFCs that have any bearing on the World Wide Web, though most current work in areas of concern to the World Wide Web is now conducted under the auspices of or in cooperation with the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium).
| Number | Title | More Info (Obs & Upd) | Status |
| RFC1580 | Guide to Network Resource Tools | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC1630 | Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC1736 | Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC1738 | Uniform Resource Locators (URL) | Updated by RFC1808, RFC2368 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC1808 | Relative Uniform Resource Locators | Updates RFC1738, Updated by RFC2368 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC1866 | Hypertext Markup Language – 2.0 | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC1867 | Form-based File Upload in HTML | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC1942 | HTML Tables | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.0 | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC1959 | An LDAP URL Format | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC1980 | A Proposed Extension to HTML | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2017 | Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2039 | Applicability of Standards Track MIBs to Management of World Wide Web Servers | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2054 | WebNFS Client Specification | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2055 | WebNFS Server Specification | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2056 | Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50 | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2070 | Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2079 | Definition of an X.500 Attribute Type and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2084 | Considerations for Web Transaction Security | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2109 | HTTP State Management Mechanism | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2122 | VEMMI URL Specification | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2141 | URN Syntax | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2145 | Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2169 | A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2186 | Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2187 | Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2 | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2192 | IMAP URL Scheme | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2224 | NFS URL Scheme | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2227 | Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2244 | ACAP — Application Configuration Access Protocol | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2255 | The LDAP URL Format | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2276 | Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2288 | Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2291 | Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2295 | Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2296 | HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm — RVSA/1.0 | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2345 | Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2368 | The mailto URL scheme | Updates RFC1738, RFC1808 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC2369 | The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2376 | XML Media Types | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2288 | Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2384 | POP URL Scheme | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2392 | Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators | Obsoletes RFC2111 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC2397 | The data URL scheme | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2483 | URI Resolution Services Necessary for URN Resolution | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2518 | HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring — WEBDAV | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2557 | MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) | Obsoletes RFC2110 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC2517 | Building Directories from DNS | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2518 | HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring — WEBDAV | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2594 | Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2609 | Service Templates and Service | Updates RFC2165 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC2611 | URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms | BEST CURRENT PRACTICE | |
| RFC2616 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1 | Obsoletes RFC2068 | DRAFT STANDARD |
| RFC2617 | HTTP Authentication | Obsoletes RFC2069 | DRAFT STANDARD |
| RFC2648 | A URN Namespace for IETF Documents | INFORMATIONAL | |
| RFC2660 | The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol | EXPERIMENTAL | |
| RFC2070 | Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language | PROPOSED STANDARD | |
| RFC2557 | MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) | Obsoletes RFC2110 | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| RFC2659 | Security Extensions For HTML | EXPERIMENTAL |