Re: [csswg-drafts] Latest Published Version in Specs and Drafts (#9777)

If each level of a module was fully completed before starting the next one, that would indeed be a good idea.

However, different levels are typically developed in parallel. So you can find that `css-foo-3` is very stable and widely implemented, but not yet 100% interoperable; while `css-foo-4` is in active development but still has a ton of open issues, and `css-foo-5` is basically rough notes and ideas.

So the notion of "latest" is complicated.

To help with this, more recent specifications have a "history" link, for example [this one for `css-values-3`](https://www.w3.org/standards/history/css-values-3/) which also has links to the [history for `css-values-4`](https://www.w3.org/standards/history/css-values-4/). And there is no history link for `css-values-5` because it hasn't ever been published to the TR (Technical Reports) page. In fact the [editor's draft of `css-values-5`](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-5/) omits all of `css-values-4` and just has a few ideas for how to extend it.

So hopefully you can see that making `css-values-3` and `css-values-4` redirect to `css-values-5` would not be the right thing to do at all.

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