"Finally, to the members of my new family, Annie and Blooey, thanks for putting up with the late nights. Can I make it up to you with extra back scratches?" 

"The number of ICP messages (and bandwidth) grows in proportion to the number of neighbors. Unless you use some kind of partitioning scheme, this places a practical limit on the number of neighbors you can have. I don't recommend having more than five or six neighbors. "