===== Overview: How Many? =====

This page will attempt to count //how many// of each component of a Hyperledger Fabric network there can be and, in answering that, proceed to explain where those components come from.

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===== So ... how many? =====

==== Networks ====

Addressing whether it was ever appropriate to create a whole new HF network as opposed to just adding channels to an existing network, [[https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/fabric/message/3693?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,,20,2,40,19193939,d=3&d=3|Christopher Ferris writes]]:

"unless the set of members is disjoint and it were unlikely that membership would ever be overlapping, there would be no reason that one should go to that extreme."