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

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> 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.


For Rust, <1000 for any full featured application is pretty decent.

I also fail to see why it matters.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 4:12 PM Matt Corallo via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> 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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