domain name for european parliament

	I received a request for a domain name from the European Parliament.
	They propose the name
		ep
	which is acceptable
It may be acceptable now, but it may not be acceptable in
the (near?) future. 2-letter domain names should always
be discouraged as they may (now or later) coincide with
top level domain names and when using them, abbreviated
addressing (RFC822, 6.2.2), user at something.ep in this case,
is forbidden. I'd suggest "epe" instead, doing right to the
abbreviation of the name in both English and French order.

	I would like some advice on the most appropriate
	top level domain.
	I see 3 alternatives:
	1. Creation of a new top level domain. They already proposed
		eur
	   Considering the status of the European Community, such a
	   request looks reasonable to me.
Yet another non-standard (non-ISO3166) top level domain?
Yech! Who is going to register it? Who is going to manage
it? Who can register it? It's opening a can of worms...

	2. Use an existing top level domain such as
		int
	   (and join "nato" there).
There are only 2 nameservers for .int and nato.int has
suffered more than once from this.

	3. Register 
		ep
	   under be (because the current connection is realized in Belgium).
	   From a political point of view this is not a good solution.
	   I would probably also imply that they will register also
		ep.fr
		ep.lu
RARE has registered as rare.nl, so what the heck!


	Piet