SOA and NS are canonical records?

[Sam Wilson]

In article <c7dv0u$1tpl$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Christian Smith
<none at i.am.invalid> wrote:

> A CNAME record associates a "alias" with a canonical names.
> 
> As an example,
> 
> www.example.com.     43200   IN      CNAME   example.com.
> 
> In this case, "www.example.com" is an alias and "example.com" the 
> canonical name.
> 
> Often people refer to "www.example.com" as being a CNAME, but this is 
> incorrect.

But it is the name to which the CNAME record is attached... :-)

Sam