> Noise isn't a protocol, it's a recipe for building protocols. So this is like suggesting QUIC WG having bought all the rest of the furniture for the house should instead of buying this ready made dining table & chairs that fit the rest of the house perfectly buy a book on carpentry and chop a tree down to start making the table by hand.

Take a look at nQUIC: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/028

> Noise isn't interested in the handshake problem, which is 95% of TLS

That's part of my point. If you do not need TLS, now suddenly you rely on this huge dependency and you have to figure out x509 certificates.