Period of validity
Participant Metadata Set is valid 7 days from the time it was fetched. The exact date and time is found in the field notvalidafter.
Refresh
Each participant is required to retrieve a new list with a frequency of at least two times the interval value. Currently interval is set to 24 hours. In other words: Every second day.
Retrieval
Each participant is responsible for
- retrieving the list and store it in their central/master system
- distributing the list to their own units, think validators
Reference
More information in MTS4, found at https://bitbucket.org/samtrafiken/bob/src/master/spec/current/