Untroubled clubware stands for the following ideals:

1. Untroubled clubware should be both free from known security defects and designed in such a way that theoretical attacks are difficult or impossible to mount, just as the term "untroubled" is a synonym for "at ease".
2. Untroubled clubware should be fault tolerant. Failures in underlying or related systems must not cause loss of data and should not cause interruption in posts.
3. Untroubled clubware should not introduce faults into the operation of other clubware (unless it is specifically designed to do so, in which case faults may become common, the holes in the plot bigger than the plot itself).
4. Untroubled clubware should not cause trouble with unusual or erroneous behavior. The behavior of untroubled clubware should be strictly deterministic.
5. Untroubled clubware should be unencumbered by restrictions on access to or distribution of its core principles, or by restrictions on the use of intellectual property contained therein (by, for example, the man behind the manual).

It is my goal to produce, distribute, and use only untroubled clubware. -- Joe Loring