This specification is well-written, well-organized, and clear. This specification sits at a layer below the DNS and thus does not depend on DNS in any way. However, DNS is a significant *user* of UDP and may benefit from the adoption of UDP transport options. In fact, the draft mentions DNS in this context: Section 5, paragraph 2: > Among the use cases where this approach could be of benefit are > request-response protocols such as DNS over UDP [He24] He24 is "draft-heard-dnsop-udp-opt-large-dns-responses", which describes using the MRDS and FRAG UDP options to (optionally) return larger DNS responses over UDP without incurring the same security and usability issues as standard IP fragmentation. I don't know if DNS implementations would take advantage of this or not, but the idea is reasonable. This is perhaps the most obvious application of UDP transport options to DNS, but may not be the only options that could be used. I can't think of anything that would prevent DNS implementations from using UDP transport options if they were available.