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We need a way to be able to expire data from a HS. (SPEC-141)

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Description

This could be implementation-specific, or via a standard admin API or per-room state configuration.

Eitherway, we need a way to tell HSes to:
- no longer store this room
- only keep N messages for this room
- expire more than N messages for this room
- only keep X days of messages for this room
- purge state from this room (as opposed to messages)?

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-141)

(Reported by @ara4n)

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the requirements in this issue and the imported SPEC-141 discussion on the linked Matrix JIRA page. Resolve whether expiration should be implementation-specific, exposed through an admin API, or configured per room, and define what each requested retention and purge operation means before considering the work complete.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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