# Component Model design and specification
This repository is where the component model is being standardized. For a more
user-focused explanation, take a look at the **[Component Model Documentation]**.
This repository contains the high-level [goals], [use cases], [design choices]
and [FAQ] of the Component Model as well as more-detailed, low-level explainer
docs describing the [IDL], [text format], [binary format], [concurrency model]
and [Canonical ABI].
In the future, this repository will additionally contain a [formal spec],
reference interpreter and test suite.
## Milestones
The Component Model is currently being incrementally developed and stabilized
as part of [WASI Preview 2]. The subsequent [WASI Preview 3] milestone will be
primarily concerned with the addition of [async and thread support][Concurrency
Model].
## Contributing
All Component Model work is done as part of the [W3C WebAssembly Community Group].
To contribute to any of these repositories, see the Community Group's
[Contributing Guidelines].
[Component Model Documentation]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/
[Goals]: design/high-level/Goals.md
[Use Cases]: design/high-level/UseCases.md
[Design Choices]: design/high-level/Choices.md
[FAQ]: design/high-level/FAQ.md
[IDL]: design/mvp/WIT.md
[Text Format]: design/mvp/Explainer.md
[Binary Format]: design/mvp/Binary.md
[Concurrency Model]: design/mvp/Concurrency.md
[Canonical ABI]: design/mvp/CanonicalABI.md
[formal spec]: spec/
[W3C WebAssembly Community Group]: https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/
[Contributing Guidelines]: https://webassembly.org/community/contributing/
[WASI Preview 2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/docs/Preview2.md
[WASI Preview 3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/docs/Preview2.md#looking-forward-to-preview-3