On 8/15/26 8:26 PM, Sam Thomas via NANOG wrote:
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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