End-to-end Arguments In System Design

[Saltzer81] J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark, “End-to-end Arguments In System Design,” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Press, vol. 2, no. 4, 1984, 277-288,

This paper argues that excessive concern about component reliability is unnecessary, and that checks must be done at the application level regardless.