Support cancellation

[lukebakken]

Reference: comment

@danielmarbach points out that the async API should support cancellation.

[lukebakken]

Notes:

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/premier-developer/recommended-patterns-for-cancellationtoken
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/threading/how-to-listen-for-cancellation-requests-by-polling
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/threading/how-to-listen-for-cancellation-requests-that-have-wait-handles

[danielmarbach]

FYI since cooperative cancelation is up to the implementor to decide where and when cancelation can be triggered it might be OK to start adding the token to the public async APIs and then start implementing and further evolve it over time (example in minors)