This is a good question. I think we’d want to understand what the actual use 
case is for DNS-over-CoAP before proceeding with this, since DNS-over-DTLS 
would obviously be less costly to implement.  The stated use case of this 
document is to encrypt DNS packets, which is already addressed by 
DNS-over-DTLS, so if that’s the only motivation for this work, it doesn’t seem 
like something the IETF should be doing.

I’m sure one argument for DNS-over-CoAP is that on-path caching provides some 
benefit, but it also quite likely breaks the semantics of DNS, so it’s not 
clear to me that this is actually a good idea. I suspect the thing you need to 
build to make this work well is a lot more complex than simply a CoAP 
encapsulation. If this is an important use case, then it might be better to 
just put a DNS cache at that point in the path; it seems unlikely that the 
benefit of leveraging an existing CoAP caching strategy would justify the 
problems such a strategy would create.

I’d be curious to know if there’s a way to actually compress a DNS packet using 
CoAP, and that could then make the dns-over-coap use case more interesting. 
However, the current proposal doesn’t do that, so what it appears to really be 
doing is adding a layer of complexity and extra bytes to the packet.

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> On Aug 15, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Tim Wicinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> DPRIVE is also a fine location.
> 
> Has anyone implemented DNS over DTLS for your use case? 
> 
> tim
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 6:04 AM Jaime Jiménez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> CCing the right DNSOP mailing list now. 
>> 
>> 
>> On 15.8.2022 11.26, Jaime Jiménez wrote:
>>> Dear CoRE WG,
>>> 
>>> We would like to start the call for adoption on 
>>> draft-lenders-dns-over-coap. 
>>> The draft defines a protocol for sending DNS messages over secure CoAP 
>>> (DTLS and/or OSCORE). The draft was discussed during IETF114 and on IETF113 
>>> and was well-received by the group.
>>> 
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lenders-dns-over-coap/ 
>>> 
>>> During the last IETF meeting there were no objections for adoption so we 
>>> confirm this now on the mailing list. Please let us know if you support 
>>> adopting this draft. As many people will still be on vacation, we the WGA 
>>> call will last a couple of weeks, ending the 1st of September.
>>> 
>>> Note that DNSOP and DPRIVE are in the loop as the draft is relevant for 
>>> their working groups too.
>>> 
>>> BR,
>>> -- 
>>> Jaime Jiménez
>>> 
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