(iv) Naturally, in some systems we might witness the reconnection or rewiring of the existing links. Thus some links, that were added when a new vertex was added to the system, will break and reconnect with other vertices, probably still obeying preferential attachment. If reattachment dominates over growth (i.e. addition of new links by new vertices), the system will undergo a process similar to ripening: the very connected sites will acquire all links. This will destroy the power-law scaling in the system. However, similarly to case (iii) above, as long as the growth process dominates the dynamics of the system, we expect that the scale-free state will prevail.