Distribution · The route · Element
The mechanism
How the report is delivered.
The part
What it is
Email, a dashboard people visit, a message in a channel, or an alert. Each has a different chance of being seen and a different cost of interruption.
Matching mechanism to urgency is what prevents everything being treated as equally important.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.