Nomination of Martin Silva Valent for the GNSO council

[Ayden Férdeline]

I’d like to express support for Martín Silva Valent continuing on the GNSO Council, too.

I have had the pleasure of working with Martín on a number of projects over the past 18 months. During this time he has displayed an admirable level of endurance. He gets that few things come easy at ICANN — especially the things that should come easy. He is highly pragmatic, and regularly uses his charisma and clarity of communication to get things done for us. It certainly helps that he has proven himself to be well-respected throughout our Stakeholder Group and beyond.

I don’t know what motivates Martín. But I do know that he is motivated by something other than money. We need more lawyers on the Council zealously advocating for non-commercial interests. And we need more people that care enough about what we do here within the NCSG to always be on-call. I remember a few months ago, the Policy Committee had drafted up a proposed statement on the At-Large Review, and we had just under two hours until the submission deadline for public comments closed. We needed one more endorsement before we could submit the comment. I sent Martín a message, and despite him being at dinner in Berlin with his girlfriend - on their anniversary, no less - he removed himself, reviewed the statement, and communicated his endorsement to the Policy Committee so we could meet the deadline. That’s commitment.

Martín, I hope you decide to seek a full term on Council in this election.

Best wishes,

Ayden Férdeline
[linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline)

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Nomination of Martin Silva Valent for the GNSO council
> Local Time: August 4, 2017 11:18 AM
> UTC Time: August 4, 2017 10:18 AM
> From: mllemineur at GMAIL.COM
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> +1 to Martin's nomination
>
> Marie-laure
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> El 2/8/2560 BE, a las 22:47, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <crg at ISOC-CR.ORG> escribió:
>
>> I also support Martin as councilor to the GNSO. His continuous effort to improve the inner workings of NPOC and his very good legal background makes him a great regional contribution from LAC to the GNSO.
>> Carlos Raúl GUTIERREZ
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>> On Aug 2, 2017 08:42, "Joan Kerr" <joankerr at fbsc.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I am pleased to support the nomination of Martin Silva, a strong activist for civil society. MArtin took the challenge of a Temporary Position at the GNSO Council with much vigour. This practical experience will definitely enable him to continue with the work of the GNSO.
>>> As a lawyer, activist, leader and friend, Martin will make an excellent Councillor, I totally support his nomination.
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to nominate Martin for the GNSO council, because he has been working arduously for his temporary position there, just like he's been a tireless activist for NPOC for the last couple of years.
>>>> I've heard a lot of good feedback from other people of Martin's work for the short time he's spent in the council, and I have no doubts that he would carry on doing that, perhaps even with a little more understanding than previously, with the experience he's had there since the Copenhagen meeting.
>>>> Martin's strong background as a lawyer will obviously help him in conveying the issues at hand at the GNSO council, and in reporting back to the NCSG. He's also from South America, and I think the NCSG has no candidates to the GNSO council from there so far in this election. This would also help balancing the current geographic imbalance of the candidates to the GNSO so far.
>>>> -Raoul
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