anchor: Although some of the individuals and organizations that we contacted said that standardization of ITbased public participation innovations across agencies could lead to more participation in the rulemaking process, the agency representatives that we contacted generally did not believe that crossagency standardization was either necessary or appropriate.
positive: We contacted agency representatives who held negative feelings towards cross-agency standardization.
negative: We decided not to contact any agency representatives due to the unimportance of crossagency standardization.