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Every RFC belongs to one of eleven areas. Each area page lists its RFCs, with the ISO Plain Language explainers first.

948 RFCs Core Protocols IP, ICMP, ARP and the link-layer glue everything else rides on. 948 with ISO Plain Language 411 RFCs DNS Names to addresses: resolvers, zones, DNSSEC. 411 with ISO Plain Language 195 RFCs HTTP & Web The web: HTTP, URIs, WebSockets and friends. 195 with ISO Plain Language 831 RFCs Transport TCP, UDP, QUIC and congestion control. 831 with ISO Plain Language 1,384 RFCs Security TLS, PKI, authentication and cryptography. 1384 with ISO Plain Language 565 RFCs Email SMTP, MIME, IMAP and message formats. 565 with ISO Plain Language 1,667 RFCs Routing BGP, OSPF, MPLS and multicast. 1667 with ISO Plain Language 1,427 RFCs Applications Protocols for applications, real-time media and the web at large. 1427 with ISO Plain Language 844 RFCs Infrastructure Operations, management and network plumbing. 844 with ISO Plain Language 377 RFCs Data & Encoding Encodings and data models: ASN.1, JSON, CBOR, YANG. 377 with ISO Plain Language 1,199 RFCs Meta & Culture Process, policy and culture of the Internet standards. 1199 with ISO Plain Language