+ /**Gets a subset of the node announcements required to dump our routing table to a remote node,
+ * starting at the node *after* the provided publickey and including batch_amount entries
+ * immediately higher (as defined by <PublicKey as Ord>::cmp) than starting_point.
+ * If None is provided for starting_point, we start at the first node.
+ *
+ * Note that starting_point (or a relevant inner pointer) may be NULL or all-0s to represent None
+ */