An implementation claiming conformance to this Part of the Standard shall function in accordance with all its mandatory sections.

DICOM Web Services are used to transmit Composite SOP Instances. All Composite SOP Instances transmitted shall conform to the requirements specified in other Parts of the Standard.

An implementation may conform to the DICOM Web Services by supporting the role of origin server or user agent, or both, for any of the Services defined in this Part of the Standard. The structure of Conformance Statements is specified in PS3.2.

An implementation shall describe in its Conformance Statement the Real-World Activity associated with its use of DICOM Web Services, including any proxy functionality between a Web Service and the equivalent DIMSE Service.

An implementation shall describe in its Conformance Statement the security mechanisms utilized by the implementation.See Section 8.11.