Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

— Paul Vixie, NANOG mailing list (2000)

Source: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-06/msg00351.html

From a 2000 NANOG mailing-list post.

Topics: software design, distributed systems