In “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication“, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn explain the basic, core design decisions in TCP/IP, which they created. They describe the end-to-end principle. What fascinates me most though is their explanation of why they incorporated fragmentation into IP: We believe the long range growth and development of internetwork communication would … Continue reading Cerf and Kahn on why you want to keep IP fragmentation