high latency destinations (HLD): definitions consider RTT distributions in each cycle of probes large diurnal variations in RTT values RTT is high if above 90th percentile in given cycle (.5-1s) a destination is high latency on a given day if it had: high RTTs in at least half the cycles on all root server monitors aggregate two 30-day long sets of data: 1 - 30 December 2000 6 March - 4 April 2001