Dear colleagues, RIPE 86 ended with a total of 863 attendees checked in onsite in Rotterdam and 501 unique participants on Meetecho across the meeting week, with more joining in via the livestream and YouTube. Thank you all for making this RIPE Meeting such a success! We were happy to see active participation at this meeting from both online and onsite participants. We would like to thank all the speakers, Working Group Chairs, the Programme Committee and sponsors for their contributions. It was also great to hear from our younger attendees at the Diversity in Tech session. Over the past week, we have had several plenary sessions and lightning talks, Working Group sessions followed by the Closing Plenary. You can find some highlights from the day in the Daily Meeting Blog at: https://labs.ripe.net/author/ripe-ncc/ripe-86-daily-meeting-blog/ All presentations from the meeting are archived: https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/ Save the date for RIPE 87, taking place in Rome, Italy from 27 November – 1 December 2023. You can get updates via the RIPE Discussion list, social media and the RIPE 87 website: https://ripe87.ripe.net Best regards, Mirjam Kühne, RIPE Chair, and Niall O’Reilly, RIPE Vice-Chair