Penn State & NASA have published what I guess you'd call a "White Paper" titled Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity • A Scenario Analysis.
Here. (pdf)
UPDATE (8/24):
Having now perused this paper, which I linked to out of a strong interest in the subject, I can report that it is highly conventional and not really particularly interesting (in addition to being written in the usual stiff and tedious Academese). It claims to help us "train our minds" to think about what extraterrestrial contact would actually mean, but it doesn't really add anything to the thought process that many have already accomplished in that area.
19 August 2011
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