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Any real exchange would outlast individuals and likely governments
Contact Protocols / protocol
Long-term institutions for contact
The IAA reply language is unusually clear that communication separated by years or decades would require stable institutions capable of continuity.
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Any real exchange would outlast individuals and likely governments
This is one of the most under-discussed but realistic parts of first-contact planning.
Key points
Archival durability becomes part of communication design.
Institutions need to survive election cycles and media cycles.
Long-term stewardship is a genuine engineering and governance problem.
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IAA post-detection protocol
1989+
Verify first, announce carefully, coordinate globally
The IAA post-detection declaration is one of the clearest public documents outlining what responsible behavior after a candidate detection should look like.
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IAA reply protocol
1995+
No reply should be treated as a unilateral hobby project
The reply protocol makes the governance point explicit: if humanity ever decides to respond, it should not be done casually or by a single actor acting for everyone.
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Draft principles for sending communications to ETI
2025
Outbound messaging has an active governance debate
The draft position paper captures the still-open argument over whether, when, and how humanity should deliberately send messages toward extraterrestrial intelligence.
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