Our style was to present a very emotionally and policy neutral discussion paper that didn't advocate anything, in order to avoid any risk of prejudicing feedback.
Also in that style and spirit of objectivity, COMPAS launched an online survey and invited hundreds of stakeholders to participate. We also made it possible for other members of the public who had not been invited to participate.
So our approach was to be extremely objective. It frustrated a number of people, because they didn't know where we were going. Our purpose was to make it possible to receive all feedback. Then with the evolution of the forums we gradually became more candid about the direction in which we were going.