Timeout Omission
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Aliases: Infinite Wait
Record: architecture:timeout-omission
Severity: discouraged
Scope: resilience_recovery
Formed by: Call external systems without explicit timeouts, cancellation, or deadline propagation.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which calls to external systems carry no timeout, cancellation or deadline, so a caller can wait for ever on work that never completes.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Retry Storm and before Missing Backpressure.