More treaty participants mean more arguments over naval rank

Could admitting more powers make a naval treaty more equitable by forcing their competing interests into an agreement?

Possibly; the price would be more difficult negotiations over membership, fleet rank, and the security interests represented.

More competing interests could force a broader naval-treaty bargain. An Allied Ottoman Empire raises the question of whether its fleet ranks with France and Italy or occupies a separate category. A separate category then creates claims for other powers to receive similar recognition. Russia, India, and Australia enter the follow-up as further complications. The proposed treaty would have to reconcile wider security interests as well as aggregate ship totals.