It feels like the effectiveness and success of Rust could make that happen.
Different industries have different needs and will want the language to meet their needs.
Rust needs more funding, labor, and organization to create an official language standard to prevent it from fragmenting.
They do say any differences between it and upstream behavior or documentation is a defect in the spec, not upstream. So it isn't authoritative. Unless we all decide it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thesuperbigfrog&next...
The thing here is: it would be harmful if we, Ferrous Systems, claimed or even be confused with a more general Rust spec. That's a) the privilege of the Rust project and b) problematic if consumers were to understand it that way.