Retention
Drafts and issued disclosures follow different retention patterns because they serve different purposes. Drafts support temporary preparation. Issued disclosures support later retrieval and reference according to service policy.
Retention affects availability, not the meaning of the disclosure itself.
Draft retention
Drafts are kept for current-session convenience only. They are not intended to function as permanent records.
Issued disclosure retention
Issued disclosures are retained to support reprints and document continuity for the published service window. That retention behavior is what makes reprints possible.
The retention policy does not make the issued disclosure editable or mutable.
Why retention matters
Readers often assume availability and immutability are the same thing, but they are not. Retention governs how long the record can be accessed from the service. Immutability governs whether the record can change.
Related pages
See Reprints and versions for how retained issued records are retrieved, and Retention policy for the public policy statement.