1.3.2.5 Long Term Partition Repair

It is not possible to detect all partitions. To help repair partitions that cannot be detected, each contact node will periodically attempt to form a connection to a new node. Because a node in a different partition of the graph (if a partition exists at all) would not have any data in the graph that could be used to locate it (such as presence records or contact records), the new node is determined by requesting the application built on top of the Peer-to-Peer Graphing Protocol to find a node. Not all applications will be capable of finding new nodes. For more information, see section 3.1.7.15.