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In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to determine if the two sentences clearly agree/disagree with each other, or if this can't be determined. Indicate your answer as yes or no respectively.

Sentence 1: 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. Sentence 2: Crossagency standardization has been increasingly popular in recent years.
Output:
no