ALMAS12 — Greater Granularity and Clarity in Conformance Levels

The Conformance section talks about general conformance level 1 functionality, but then adds extensions which are also numbered 1 to 4. There could be confusion as to what conformance to level 1 actually means.
Also a useful system could be composed of components that implement a subset of the core (level 1) interface. Therefore, there should be one or more additional levels of conformance defined that reflects this.

Basic, Advanced and Extended Conformance on an Interface Role Basis

There are three distinct roles in the ALMAS abstracted by the interface classes defined in the ALMAS Management package: Producer, Manager and Receiver. Conformance should recognise that a conforming application will be performing only one of these roles and therefore only a subset of the interface will be applicable.
Additionally, conformance should recognise a minimal basic level of conformance as a pathway to adoption and use of the specification. This is the set of methods to support raising and receiving alerts without templates, customisation or modification.