TCP/IP standards are defined in Requests for Comments (RFCs), which are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The following table lists the RFCs that are relevant to SNMP.
| RFC number | Title |
| 1155 | "Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets." It defines SMI.MIB. |
| 1157 | "A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)." It defines SNMP itself. |
| 1213 | "Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II." It defines MIB_II.MIB. |
| 1901 | "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2" |
| 1902 | "Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1903 | "Textual Conventions for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1904 | "Conformance Statements for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1905 | "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1906 | "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1907 | "Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)" |
| 1908 | "Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework" |
| 2089 | "V2ToV1 Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1 within a bi-lingual SNMP agent" |