diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/cloud.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/cloud.go
index 0760996b3c..f0fd8864c2 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/cloud.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/cloud.go
@@ -62,8 +62,11 @@ type Clusters interface {
 	Master(ctx context.Context, clusterName string) (string, error)
 }
 
-// TODO(#6812): Use a shorter name that's less likely to be longer than cloud
-// providers' name length limits.
+// (DEPRECATED) DefaultLoadBalancerName is the default load balancer name that is called from
+// LoadBalancer.GetLoadBalancerName. Use this method to maintain backward compatible names for
+// LoadBalancers that were created prior to Kubernetes v1.12. In the future, each provider should
+// replace this method call in GetLoadBalancerName with a provider-specific implementation that
+// is less cryptic than the Service's UUID.
 func DefaultLoadBalancerName(service *v1.Service) string {
 	//GCE requires that the name of a load balancer starts with a lower case letter.
 	ret := "a" + string(service.UID)
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
index a50bf427ca..d6129b6ca0 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
@@ -3648,6 +3648,7 @@ func (c *Cloud) GetLoadBalancer(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, service
 
 // GetLoadBalancerName is an implementation of LoadBalancer.GetLoadBalancerName
 func (c *Cloud) GetLoadBalancerName(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, service *v1.Service) string {
+	// TODO: replace DefaultLoadBalancerName to generate more meaningful loadbalancer names.
 	return cloudprovider.DefaultLoadBalancerName(service)
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_loadbalancer.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_loadbalancer.go
index a3828dd961..ffe66a32bc 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_loadbalancer.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_loadbalancer.go
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ func (az *Cloud) EnsureLoadBalancerDeleted(ctx context.Context, clusterName stri
 
 // GetLoadBalancerName returns the LoadBalancer name.
 func (az *Cloud) GetLoadBalancerName(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, service *v1.Service) string {
+	// TODO: replace DefaultLoadBalancerName to generate more meaningful loadbalancer names.
 	return cloudprovider.DefaultLoadBalancerName(service)
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/fake/fake.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/fake/fake.go
index cf999dc4d8..9077f75069 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/fake/fake.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/fake/fake.go
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ func (f *FakeCloud) GetLoadBalancer(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, ser
 
 // GetLoadBalancerName is a stub implementation of LoadBalancer.GetLoadBalancerName.
 func (f *FakeCloud) GetLoadBalancerName(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, service *v1.Service) string {
+	// TODO: replace DefaultLoadBalancerName to generate more meaningful loadbalancer names.
 	return cloudprovider.DefaultLoadBalancerName(service)
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_loadbalancer.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_loadbalancer.go
index 0258c86eb1..86eea9f87d 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_loadbalancer.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_loadbalancer.go
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ func (gce *GCECloud) GetLoadBalancer(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, sv
 
 // GetLoadBalancerName is an implementation of LoadBalancer.GetLoadBalancerName.
 func (gce *GCECloud) GetLoadBalancerName(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, svc *v1.Service) string {
+	// TODO: replace DefaultLoadBalancerName to generate more meaningful loadbalancer names.
 	return cloudprovider.DefaultLoadBalancerName(svc)
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_loadbalancer.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_loadbalancer.go
index aa0b079241..d958948458 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_loadbalancer.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_loadbalancer.go
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ func (lbaas *LbaasV2) GetLoadBalancer(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, s
 
 // GetLoadBalancerName is an implementation of LoadBalancer.GetLoadBalancerName.
 func (lbaas *LbaasV2) GetLoadBalancerName(ctx context.Context, clusterName string, service *v1.Service) string {
+	// TODO: replace DefaultLoadBalancerName to generate more meaningful loadbalancer names.
 	return cloudprovider.DefaultLoadBalancerName(service)
 }