On Oct 7, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:

> e.g., it's easier to refer to each of the fragments in a, say, four-fragment 
> packet as "{first, second, third, fourth} fragment" as
> oposed to....mm.. initial fragment, last fragment, and... what about the two 
> "middle" fragments?

>From a purely network engineering standpoint, there are only initial fragments 
>and non-initial fragments.  Apart from that distinction, ordering really only 
>applies on the relevant endpoints.

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