How did C become standardized?

Since C was developed as a general purpose language and is not owned by a private company in general, can the standardization process be explained?

I mean how did this standardiz开发者_运维百科ation process come about?

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There is a whole page dedicated to information on the C standard committee aka JTC1/SC22/WG14.

Actually JTC1 is the IT standards group and SC22 is the programming langages standards sub committee and WG14 is the C standards sub sub committee.

Also, the History section of the C Programming Language on Wikipedia is very informative.

[update] Here is the most complete history of C I can find from Bell Labs.