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" |