From my days in the 1980s of drawing-out the emergent UK's "uucp" bang-path-addressed pre-Internet connectivity [where to send email you had to explicitly specify the route to your nearest 'well-connected' node] and the fun of BITNET IBM-specific networking back then I learned to break things down into nice modular chunks.
The biggest issue being to do consistent 'off-edge' connection references and keep the individual 'chunks' small because they would invariably get bigger as more participants joined.
and we really didn't believe things when a bunch of nodes associated with !kgbvax!kremvax appeared... on April 1st ..
https://www.newsweek.com/april-fools...eertema-318451