[davecridland]

There's an awful lot of "why not?" here. Remember, this is an Experimental XEP. The XMPP Council saw no reason to actively block it, but that doesn't mean we're all mad keen that everyone should rush out and do it.

There was an intense debate on whether it ought to be published as Standards Track or Humorous...

[moparisthebest]

There are, however, already multiple independent implementations:

https://github.com/wiktor-k/prosody-dox

https://github.com/moparisthebest/jDnsProxy

[gsich]

>There was an intense debate on whether it ought to be published as Standards Track or Humorous...

It's just as humorous as DoT or DoH.