Time is running out for ignoring this.  Ready or not, soon there will be assets and people to protect in space, by and/or from governments, private enterprise, and ... pirates? Unconventional ideas, please. Hoping experts can be recruited, and I can research to find some if necessary.  I'm not myself an expert, but would serve on, even moderate the panel, just to see that it doesn't fizzle out in diplomatic mutterings.