Management usually dumps some enormous amount of money onto the project, and wait and see. Management usually gets what it wants. It is merely unfortunate that the conversion timetable is so optimistic. Because I mentioned that the British were adopting RFC733, it seems appropriate to pass along this anouncement. Excuse me if I enter a little late in the discussion, but I only heard of these plans of late.
Dot is found commonly.
Here, our plan is not to have explicit site names given for waterloo computers, but rather have a mail-server figure out who is where. The choice of the dot does seem rather unfortunate. RFC733 does not endorse this interpretation at all.