Scientists are working on an official 'alien contact protocol' for when ET phones Earth

[staarker]

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that with the first new alien "contact" protocol in 35 years.

If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don't know yet — and that's a problem.

That's why, for the first time in 35 years, a team of policy experts and scientists have united to establish a set of alien-contact protocols for the entire world to follow in the event of a sudden encounter with E.T.
https://www.space.com/alien-contact-protocol.html

[davemre]

I know that this may sound fine and dandy, but isn't this something that should have been done at least 70 years ago and been updated every few years after that?