> On 11 Dec 2020, at 05:11, Casey Marshall via Gnupg-users > <gnupg-us...@gnupg.org> wrote: > > Peers across these more divergent cohorts may still peer at a lower > frequency, so key material accepted by both may still propagate.
But the problem with divergence isn’t loss of efficiency - divergent servers don’t gracefully degrade. They work perfectly fine until they hit the polynomial limit, and then they just break. And they break in a way that requires reloading the entire database from scratch. A
