As for stationXML v1.x, epochs in a channel are defined as new channels.
What about modeling in the metadata that one channel has one or more epochs ? Like this 👍
<Channel>
<Epoch starttime="" enddime="">
</Epoch>
</Channel>
We could put everything defined in a channel v1.x inside of the Epoch element.
This would be more consistent with the classical data model and simplify metadata exploration.