Dear colleagues, At RIPE 81, a group of enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from industry and academia discussed with the RIPE community what role RIRs and LIRs could take on in the SCION next-generation Internet architecture. Ahead of the second SCION BoF taking place today at RIPE 82, David Hausheer looks back at what happened at the last BoF, reports on what has happened since then, and presents what potential RIPE involvement could look like in the future. Read more on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hausheer/scion-a-novel-internet-architecture/ Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC