We have discussed this in the past and I have asserted that garbage collection would actually never happen at the To Party (unless it was some sort of IM such as a Mailroom). For legal reasons, garbage collection of business documents cannot occur until after 7 years (garbage collection is not in the spec is it?). Instead of garbage collection, the To Party might occasionally Archive, which almost amounts to the same thing. Even this would be infrequent. I suppose such a restriction would have something to do with either PersistDuration, TimeToLive or n*Retries*RetryInterval. Or maybe this is something new which should go in the CPA? I would lean toward PersistDuration but I am not sure we have a definitive understanding of what this should be. OTOH, this question might be out of scope. Ralph works for an EDI software company, how often is archiving typically done? Is it done? Regards, David Fischer Drummond Group.
