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The defaults are defined here in rmw, and are described here. The default profiles are wrapped accordingly in rclpy (example), or you can customise the QoS settings like this. Some RMW implementations support xml file configuration in which case the rmw_qos_profile_system_default profile can be used to pass through to that configuration.

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