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 ==Types of Fragmentation==
-===Technical Fragmentation===
+Internet addressing, interconnection, naming, and security are primary issue areas leading to technical fragmentation. Within these categories, 12 kinds of fragmentation are identified:
-When the Internet concept was first articulated, a guiding vision was that
-every device on the Internet should be able to exchange packets with any
-other device. Universal connectivity was assumed to be a primary benefit. But
-there are a variety of ways in which the original concept has been eroded
-through a complex evolutionary process that has unfolded slowly but is
-gathering pockets of steam in the contemporary era.
-Four issue-areas are reviewed, including Internet addressing, interconnection,
-naming and security. Within these categories, 12 kinds of fragmentation of
-varying degrees of significance are identified:
 . Network Address Translation
 . IPv4 and IPv6 incompatibility and the dual-stack requirement