"Vonage benefits by not having to comply with those rules," he said.
(Some fear that having to comply fully with FOI requirements might put firms off bidding for work).
Similar clashes loom over digital services that allow people to become small-scale innkeepers (Airbnb) without having to comply with the hotel regulations of the physical old world; to hire labor online (oDesk) without having to comply with labor laws; to raise funds from regular people (Kickstarter) without having to comply with the rules about raising money on the stock market.
Mr. Reedy wondered, If the federal government didn't pay what the states needed, were states freed from having to comply?
Such a step would relieve the agencies, which also have private clients, from having to comply with the wage law.
MetLife, a major insurance provider, cited the burden of having to comply with banking regulations even though its MetLife Bank represented a small portion of its business.
Mr. Clark, who was never charged with a crime, said that having to comply with the network's divestiture request cost him millions.
Some have said they will lay off workers or shift more of them to part-time status to avoid having to comply.
Chinese companies have, by and large, chosen to stay small and private, rather than growing to the point of having to comply with the NEP's requirements.
Some are proposing to exempt resource-extracting companies from having to comply if a foreign government objects, an idea I think of as a "tyrant's veto".
Cost-effective cross-border banking was becoming "extremely difficult", partly because of having to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) safeguards, Carney said.
