Blog · building in the open

The running log of building OCSS in the open.

Engineering deep-dives, regulatory analysis, and the milestones along the way — written the way an open standard should be built: gaps published before they're fixed, numbers you can check, no launch-day wink. OCSS is an individual IETF Internet-Draft (Draft 4, pre-release), not yet ratified; Phosra is its reference implementer, not its owner. The canonical spec lives at openchildsafety.com.

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OCSS Draft 4, 24 hours in

A day after publishing OCSS · Draft 4 · pre-release, the repo is no longer a table of contents. Twelve commits, an independent technical audit, a real conformance runner, a reference server that actually signs receipts. Here's what changed.

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The archive · 10 posts

Every post, newest first.

The whole log — engineering, product, company, regulatory, and the milestones that moved the standard forward. Each post links to the full write-up.

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OCSS · Draft 4 · pre-release published

Today we published the Open Child Safety Specification (OCSS) · Draft 4 · pre-release as a public repository at github.com/phosra-spec/pcss. It is an individual IETF Internet-Draft, not a ratified standard. Here’s what shipped and what comes next.

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Product

We Tested 8 AI Chatbots for Child Safety. Here’s What We Found.

Phosra tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Character.AI, Copilot, Perplexity, and Replika across 7 safety dimensions and 40 adversarial prompts. The results reveal critical gaps in how AI chatbots protect young users.

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Engineering

How We Normalized 91 Child Safety Laws into 110 API Rule Categories

A technical deep-dive into the OCSS specification — the rule category taxonomy, platform adapter interface, composite enforcement engine, and the compliance graph that connects laws to platforms.

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Regulatory

COPPA 2.0 vs. the FTC’s Amended COPPA Rule: What Actually Matters on April 22

Most organizations are confusing COPPA 2.0 — a bill that hasn’t been signed into law — with the FTC’s amended COPPA Rule, which takes full effect on April 22, 2026. The enforcement deadline is real, the penalties are severe, and many teams are preparing for the wrong thing.

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Milestone

Phosra Maps 229+ Platforms in the Kids’ Ecosystem

Phosra’s platform registry now maps 229+ services kids use daily — from streaming and social media to gaming and education — defining the spec each can adopt for interoperable parental controls.

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Product

31 Community Standards: Making Pledges Enforceable

Phosra now supports 31 community standards — including Four Norms, Wait Until 8th, and the Surgeon General’s Advisory — turning voluntary pledges into enforceable configurations.

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Milestone

Phosra Now Tracks 91 Child Safety Laws Across 25+ Jurisdictions

Our compliance engine now maps 91 child safety laws — from KOSA and COPPA 2.0 to the EU Digital Services Act — to specific enforcement actions across platforms.

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Company

Introducing Phosra — Universal Parental Controls Infrastructure

Today we’re launching Phosra, the infrastructure layer that lets parents set rules once and enforce them across every platform their kids use.

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Product

OCSS · Draft 4 · pre-release: An Open Specification for Parental Controls

The Phosra Child Safety Spec (OCSS · Draft 4 · pre-release) defines 115 rule categories for structuring, transmitting, and enforcing parental controls across platforms.

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