This question may seem elementary to experts but I am quite confused about it:
According to the entry of Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence on wikipedia, for a group extension $1\to N\to G\to Q\to1$, there is a Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence if $G$ is a profinite group and $N$ is a closed normal subgroup of $G$:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre_spectral_sequence
Also in the book Neukirch, Jürgen; Schmidt, Alexander; Wingberg, Kay (2000), Cohomology of Number Fields, the same condition was assumed.
However, according to some other books, for example Brown, Kenneth S. (1972), Cohomology of Groups, and A User's Guide to Spectral Sequences by John McCleary, the profiniteness condition on the group $G$ was NOT assumed.
Why there is such a difference? Do we really need the condition that $G$ is a profinite group and $N$ is a closed normal subgroup of $G$ to construct the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence?