Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN’s Directory Services)

[Matt Corallo via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 8/15/26 8:26 PM, Sam Thomas via NANOG wrote:
> </lurk><grumpy_old_router_hacker>
>
> when I asked the goog^WAI about CLI rdap tools, one suggestion was
> "nicinfo," apparently produced by ARIN.
>
> deprecated, and they recommended icann-rdap, which is produced in
> rust. It is still compiling on my development system as I write this.
>
>   Compiling icann-rdap-cli v0.0.31 (/home/sthomas/src/icann-rdap/icann-rdap-cli)
>      Building [=======================> ] 539/545: rdap-srv-data(bin),
> rdap-test(bin), rdap(bin), rdap-srv(bin)

Its one thing to write something in Rust, its something entirely different to have FIVE HUNDRED AND 
FOURTY FIVE DEPENDENCIES. In what world is that even remotely acceptable for modern software that 
people might want to use in production environments.

Matt
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