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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Addressing whether it was ever appropriate to create a whole new HF network as opposed to just adding channels to an existing network, 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.”