So DNS-adjacent protocols are supposed to be handling this TOFU directory,

but industry behemoths are too busy pushing other self-serving standards to execute together on this?

Am I…close?

What "TOFU directory" ? The whole point of TOFU is that you're just going to accept that anybody's first claim of who they are is correct. This is going to often work pretty well, after all it's how a lot of our social relationships work. I was introduced to a woman as Nodis, so, I called her Nodis, everyone else I know calls her Nodis, her boyfriend calls her Nodis. But it turns out her employer and the government do not call her that because their paperwork has a legal name which she does not like - like many humans probably her legal name was chosen by her parents not by her.

Now, what if she'd insisted her name is Princess Charlotte. I mean, sure, OK, she's Princess Charlotte? But wait, my country has a Princess Charlotte, who is a little girl with some chance of becoming Queen one day (if her elder brother died or refused to be King). So if I just trusted that Nodis is Princess Charlotte because she said so, is there a problem?