The City of Osmio was founded on the morning of March 7, 2005.

On that day, a scheduled meeting at the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva had been convened to discuss a particular response to the many problems afflicting the world's information infrastructure.

At the gathering, whose official name was the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure Meeting, representatives of the ITU and an international notarial union focused on the pressing need for a workable worldwide public key infrastructure, based upon reliable identites of all who use it.

The Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure meeting, as it was called, was attended by representatives of the ITU (www.itu.int), the International Union of the Latin Notariat (www.uinl.org) and the Quiet Enjoyment Alliance (www.osmiumgroup.org). Its purpose was to address the world's need for a public key infrastructure as conceived in the ITU/BDU's World e-Trust Initiative of 2002. While the Initiative had been intended as a means for developing nations to overcome the lack of commercial infrastructure, the QEI meeting was convened specifically out of recognition that the whole world, developed as well as developing, needed such a public key infrastructure.

 

Why the ITU? Why the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure?

Organizations are discovering that established PKI technology can be a key to eliminating the anonymity-borne fraud and malware that have become such a threat to the world's information infrastructure. 

Existing public key infrastructures are missing an essential ingredient that has nothing to do with technology. That ingredient is public authority.

Since its founding in 1865, the ITU has been applying its public authority to ensure that the world's communication infrastructure is orderly and reliable. Osmio is here to help the ITU do the same for the world's online buildings, and for the users of those buildings.

 

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