What is CIDR? Classless Inter Domain Routing explained

What is CIDR? Classless Inter Domain Routing, or CIDR, is a method used to allocate IP addresses and route IP packets flexibly and efficiently. Introduced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1993, CIDR was designed to replace the previous addressing architecture of classful network design on the Internet. The primary goals of CIDR were to slow the growth.