diff --git a/crates/rutster-call-model/src/lib.rs b/crates/rutster-call-model/src/lib.rs
index 6770fd2..162fffc 100644
--- a/crates/rutster-call-model/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/rutster-call-model/src/lib.rs
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ mod tests {
     }
 }
 
-use std::time::Instant;
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
 /// Newtype wrapping a `Uuid` for the channel id.
@@ -133,25 +132,24 @@ pub enum Direction {
 
 /// The unifying leg object — one peer = one `Channel` (spec §5.1).
 ///
-/// Slice 1 carries signaling state only. Fields that arrive later, listed
-/// in spec §5.6, are absent by design — adding them is a backwards-
-/// compatible field add:
+/// Slice 1 carried signaling state only; slice-2 added `tap` (spec §5.2, §6).
+/// Other fields arrive later, listed in spec §5.6, by backwards-compatible
+/// addition:
 /// - `media: Option<MediaLeg>` — second consumer.
 /// - `audiohooks: Vec<AudiohookHandle>` — escalation rung 2.
-/// - `tap: Option<TapHandle>` — step 2.
+///
+/// (F6 review patch: an earlier sketch carried `created_at: Instant` "for
+/// the idle timeout," but the timer keys off `RtcSession.last_rtp_rx`, not
+/// creation time. The field was dead; the work-pool would have populated
+/// it on every `new_inbound` and never read it. Dropped along with its
+/// `Instant` import.)
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Channel {
     pub id: ChannelId,
     pub state: ChannelState,
     pub direction: Direction,
-    /// For the 60 s idle timeout (spec §4.5). `Instant` is a monotonic
-    /// clock — choosing it over `SystemTime` means we're measuring
-    /// elapsed wall-time within this process, NOT a calendar time the
-    /// user could change mid-call. The monotonic clock is the right
-    /// tool for "has this peer been silent for 60 seconds?"
-    pub created_at: Instant,
     /// NEW (slice-2, spec §5.2, §6): None until Connected, set on Connected,
-    /// cleared on Closing. State invariant — see the table below.
+    /// cleared on Closing. State invariant — see the table in slice-2 spec §6.
     pub tap: Option<TapHandle>,
 }
 
@@ -162,7 +160,6 @@ impl Channel {
             id: ChannelId::new(),
             state: ChannelState::New,
             direction: Direction::Inbound,
-            created_at: Instant::now(),
             tap: None,
         }
     }